Posted on 11/07/2008 7:30:05 PM PST by bitt
President-elect Barack Obama's aunt is in hiding with relatives in Cleveland and mulling her options to fight a deportation order, according to her immigration lawyer.
Margaret W. Wong, a lawyer in Cleveland, issued a statement saying Zeituni Onyango did not wish to comment further. The 56-year-old half-sister of Obama's late father had said she would speak to a reporter after the election, but instead declined to comment and fled her apartment in the Boston Housing Authority for Ohio.
"Her wish is for this matter to remain private," Wong said in a statement. "She is in Cleveland with close family members resting and is under good care."
An immigration judge denied Onyango's application for political asylum and ordered her deported four years ago. But since then she has been living in federal and state-funded public housing in Boston.
Immigration lawyers have said Onyango might have several options to stay in this country, even if she were facing a deportation order. She could appeal to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to allow her to stay while she tries to reopen her asylum case, for instance.
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PO’ed ping list....
ping......WTH?????
All I want to know is...WHAT BLOODY OPTIONS????
She goes, just like any illegal immigrant who gets busted! Sheesh! It’s not rocket science!
Mad as Hell ping
“Her wish is for this matter to remain private,” Wong said in a statement. “She is in Cleveland with close family members resting and is under good care.”
I can’t tell uoi how relieved I am that another ILLEGAL wants to keep this “prvate”, “resting” and in
good care”. For awhile there I thought they may actually DEPORT her since she was TOLD TO LEAVE FOUR YEARS AGO.
NEWSFLASH
REPUBLICANS DEPORT OBAMA’S AUNT
please giv me a break
she’s in for sure
I hear ya!
“An immigration judge denied Onyango’s application for political asylum and ordered her deported four years ago. But since then she has been living in federal and state-funded public housing in Boston. “
Myabe she is a tad SLOW and GREEDY?
How the hell did she get FEDERAL and STATE FUNDING when she shouldn’t be here to begin with and ASKED TO LEAVE?
Not gonna happen.
Her nephew is the Messiah.
The rule of law is not for her.
Cleveland?
I wonder if BHO dropped her off in Cleveland when he was here with Bruce Springsteen at his rally last week. /s
America---
Flop house of the world
Obama will do his best to open our gates to the 3rd world lest we be racist
Obviously she committed massive fraud and disregarded federal laws.
It must be genetic.
Ah, yes … another illegal for the tax payers of Ohio to feed, clothe and give free medical care to.
Options: Fly to Kenya or swim?
More Obama relatives?
Good lord, this guy’s family tree is a freakin clown car.
So NOW she’s living with relatives, after 4 years sponging off taxpayers.
I work blocks aways from this Cleveland lawyer’s firm.
I’ll have to ask our immigration attorney how this could have happened.
So she’s in Cleveland now?Give her a little time there and she will be glad to go back to Kenya.
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