Posted on 02/07/2009 11:35:12 AM PST by fiodora
An anti-illegal-immigration political group is calling on Barack Obama today to deport his aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who apparently remains an illegal immigrant fugitive from justice in Cleveland.
Americans for Legal Immigration posted its "public demand" on its Web site, basically telling Obama he's a hypocrite if he won't have his aunt arrested and removed to her native Kenya:
"Actions speak louder than words, Mr. President," said William Gheen. "If you do not execute the deportation order for your aunt, then your lip service about the Rule of Law is no CHANGE from George Bush."
The 56-year-old Onyanga was found living in an impoverished Boston neighborhood by the news media in October. Then, on the first of November, an Associated Press story appeared that detailed how Onyango -- now in Cleveland -- had actually been an illegal immigrant living under a deportation order for four years.
Last week, it was revealed that the Homeland Security Department under Bush had issued an order days before Obama's election that required high-level approval for fugitive immigrant arrests -- apparently to head off the inevitable media blitz that would occur if Onyango was taken into custody at the wrong time.
Onyango's story is another fascinating story of a decrepit immigration system, but ALIPAC's logic has a major flaw: The above AP article mentions that Onyango's deportation order was stayed in December, and she now has an April court hearing.
How's that for Rule of Law? Obama has no reason to screw over his aunt by somehow having her deported before the hearing, even if he had that power.
We called Onyango's Cleveland lawyer, Margaret Wong, to find out how Obama's aunt managed to get her deportation stayed, but Wong wouldn't take our call. Instead, we were referred to a guy named Mike Rogers, "Margaret Wong's spokesman on that issue." But Rogers never called back, either.
Then we phoned ALIPAC (not to be confused with ALIPAC) at its home base in North Carolina to find out if the author of the "demand" knew about Onyango's court date.
"She's already had her day in court," the gentleman we reached snarls, pointing out she's lived in the country illegally for five years. (We couldn't get his name -- he was too busy lambasting us for various Feathered Bastard columns, some of which they post on their site).
But, as mentioned, ALIPAC is wrong -- Onyango's day in court still awaits her.
The ALIPAC article is based on a false premise.
Oh, oh ... ah wait ... maybe this “dear” Aunt he loves so much could live with him in the WH.
Not in a million years.
This is a loser for us.
Oh, oh, uuuh, the Lincoln room is vacant...
We still don’t officially know if Barack Obama, himself, was born in the U.S., and we all may never, ever know for sure! But, what does Barack Obama seriously have to hide, if he really was born in the U.S.? These are strange times, and they will really keep on getting even stranger for awhile, if not forever.
Someone call “Dog The Bounty Hunter.”
I think he is the product of a left-wing propaganda, and it does not matter if he was born in this country or no, as long as the Salinsky’s left can push for an affirmative action clown that they can manipulate.
Yeah, that clears it up.
You are probably right, Chicago is probably the next stop for her...where Obama’s cronies will take care of her. How does this woman, an illegal alien get around the country so much? If she is so destitute, how was she able to travel from Boston to Cleveland?
President Obama is a latter-day Louis XIV...he may do as he pleases. Little poeple - kindly shut up. You matter not.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/20/partying-in-dc-illegal-aliendeportation-fugitive-aunti-zeituni-onyango/
“Well, isn’t this special? After overstaying her visa, ignoring a federal deportation order for years, escaping apprehension in Boston, and taking refuge in Cleveland, the destitute illegal alien aunt of Barack Obama somehow found her way to Washington, D.C., for her nephew’s inauguration.
Federal immigration officials couldn’t find her, but she was spotted by several media outlets and partygoers around the Beltway.”
George Bush didn't have fugitive favorite aunts running about the country and especially not ones that attended his inauguration for all to see. But the fact that Obama is a lying hypocrite should come as a shock to no one.
Obama could easily have his aunt be granted a new VISA at any given time.
I personally would not fault him, as it is his family and he is the POTUS; idiot voters gave him the power ...
HOWEVER, he is allowing this issue to remain for political purposes IMO, I’m not exactly sure how this will give him political points, but it WILL. Mark my words, it will.
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