Posted on 09/20/2010 8:05:58 PM PDT by chuckee
BOSTON (WBZ)
"If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen." Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV.
Onyango is the aunt of President Barack Obama. She has been living in the United States illegally for years, receiving public assistance in Boston.
Aunt Zeituni, as she has come to be known, first surfaced in the public light in 2008, in the final days of the Presidential election. Then-candidate Obama said that he was not against the possible deportation of his aunt. "If she has violated laws, then those laws have to be obeyed," he told CBS's Katie Couric. "We are a nation of laws."
Onyango had violated the law, and she knew it.
"I knew I had overstayed" she told WBZ-TV's Jonathan Elias when the two sat down one-on-one.
Zeituni Onyango said she came to the United States in 2000 and had every intention of leaving. Then, however, she says she got deathly ill and was hospitalized. When she recovered, she said she was broke and couldn't afford to leave.
For two years Onyango said she lived in a homeless shelter, before she was moved into public housing. "I didn't take advantage of the system. The system took advantage of me."
"I didn't ask for it; they gave it to me. Ask your system. I didn't create it or vote for it. Go and ask your system," she said unapologetically.
And she's right. The system provided her assistance despite her status as an illegal immigrant.
In 2004 a judge ordered Zeituni Onyango out of the country, but she never left. She stayed, hiding in plain site. In 2005 she attended her nephew's swearing in as the junior Senator of Illinois. In 2008 she traveled to D.C. for President Obama's inauguration.
Onyango hired a top immigration lawyer from Cleveland to help fight her case. We asked how she afforded that lawyer, when she claimed poverty.
"When you believe in Jesus Christ and almighty God, my help comes from heaven," she responded.
When asked about cutting in line ahead of those who have paid into the system she answered plainly, "I don't mind. You can take that house. I will be on the street with the homeless."
In May 2010, Onyango's case went back before the same judge who ordered her out of the country in 2004. This time she was granted asylum in the United States. The ruling said a return to Kenya might put Onyango in danger.
So she is now here legally, still living on public assistance and hoping that the spotlight on her will dim.
This country is so Screwed.
I see the entitlement apple doesn’t fall far from the tree...
Must be us "sucker" tax paying U.S. citizens... always our fault.
Back in Canada where Im originally from, they had the common sense to recently cap the quota 2 weeks ago for their own version of the H1B visa, and now depends on each province to find out if their quotas have been met. The difference is their version is absolutely dependent on skills which will help the country. Here in America, the open door just allows the lunatics to come and go as hey please.
She shoudl move into the white house and share a room with the obama grandmother who for some strange reason has been living there for two years almost.
She shoudl move into the white house and share a room with the obama grandmother who for some strange reason has been living there for two years almost.
No, Mrs. Zeituni: you and your fellow illegal immigrants take advantage of the system—i.e. we, the taxpaying people.
Democrat Presidents have a habit of housing ne’er do well relatives in the White House. Johnson had his drunken brother living in the White House, Clinton had Hillary’s brother living there off and on as well as renting out the Lincoln bedroom. Obama has Michelle’s mother living there and I guess he may as well prepare a room for crazy Auntie Obama. Have her welfare checks sent directly to the White House.
The U.S. should fund a plan to send the “Aunt Zeituna’s” in this country back home...a $1,000 air fare one way is still cheaper than supporting the likes of her for life.
We really need to contract with the Democratic republic of Congo (Zaire) to dump our illegal aliens a thousand dollars a head and I’m sure they’d agree to take them in. We’d never see them again.
I will say that she makes a very good argument for the complete abolition of public housing.
When I read this story, I have so little respect for Obama. He is a multimillionaire with vast political resources, and he can’t take care of his aunt?
What the H is wrong with him. Classic lib. Lets the government take care of a family member that according to every moral law the responsiblity lies at his door.
He is a lowlife.
Who threatened the judge? Holder? His lackeys?
How many of them? What did they threaten?
It’s funny how when she was going into the courthouse for her Immigration hearings she was in a wheeel chair or walking with a cane. Now they show her walking down at Carson beach covered in gold and designer sunglasses. No wheelchair, No cane.
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