Posted on 10/31/2008 8:59:09 PM PDT by Fred
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.
Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.
Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of U.S. immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the United States.
The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004.
(Excerpt) Read more at ap.google.com ...
not officially but you’d never know it....
http://www.slate.com/id/1005937/
“Associated Press reporter Pete Yost played by the journalistic rules last Thursday when he granted anonymity to the sources who provided him with his big scoop: that Independent Counsel Robert Ray had impaneled a new grand jury to hear evidence against President Clinton. As Yost chased his own story on Thursday and Friday, publishing the peeved speculations of big-name Democrats that the sources were Republicans, he continued to follow the official rulebook. He kept a poker face, reported the facts, and protected his sources. But playing by the rules, in this instance, meant behaving unethically.”
AP’s Pete Yost pulled the same stunt in 2000. Liberals are never original, they just do the same thing over and over.
That is good ... real good.
I live 5 miles away from this area and it is not exactly a “slum.” But it is a low-income housing project. It’s hard to believe Obama would allow his aunt to live in this area. He manages to keep everyone else under wraps yet he can’t look after his aunt? Unbelievable. What a fraud.
1. Look at not just my post, but at the post it was a reply to. I was suggesting a politically astute way of getting BHO’s despicable behavior into the public eye quickly without risk of “backlash”... Why? because I LOATHE OBAMA and want McCAin Palin to win very, very badly... Still sound like a troll to you jacka$$?
but you were too lazy and too stupid to even consider that before you labeled me a troll. Right moron?
2. Below you can read my more recent post discussing how I think we might get traction with this story in the little time that is left...
Read it, read my other posts, Offered here: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:nycbullmoose/index?brevity=full;tab=comments
Because I know you are too lazy to find them yourself.
Then, tell if you think I am a “Troll” still...
If, “no” — a public apology will suffice
If, “yes” — then you're even dumber than I thought and you can “sit and spin”
******************************************* I think we are all MISSING THE BIG POINT— the issue is not that she is illegal, the point is that Obama has ignored her for years... has done nothing to help her at all... she lived in POVERTY within a bus ride of his apartment in Boston when he was at Harvard...
Simply put: Obama treats his family TERRRIBLY — and Americans (especially black-Americans) will not like it one damn bit...
Think about it: there are only 2 possibilities:
1. He didn't know she was in the US (or where she was) — in which case he DID NOTHING to try to find her (believe me, if an English Newspaper can find her, Obama could have had he cared).
BTW — if this was true wouldn't you expect him to be HAPPY and THANKFUL that she had been found? Wouldn't you rush to her side - and tearfully introduce her to your wife and children?
Also, it's going to be pretty hard to say you didn't know she was here WHEN SHE SENT YOUR CAMPAIGN A FRIGGIN’ CHECK!!!
— or —
2. He did know she was here and where to find her and he didn't give a rat's a$$... Didn't care that she was illegal, didn't care that she was subject to deportation, didn't care that she lived in or near poverty.
When it suited his purposes, he exploited his Kenyan family in his books to create an likable image for himself... when it suited his purposes he pretended that she was didn't exist and hoped no one would find her...
AMERICANS OF ALL POLITCAL PERSAUSIONS BELIEVE IN FAMILY —
OBAMA HAS NOW BEEN EXPOSED — HE CARES ABOUT NO ONE BUT HIMSELF
IF HE WONT TAKE CARE OF HIS OWN FLESH AND BLOOD — WHY WOULD YOU BELIEVE HE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR YOU?
She’s easily found on the internet by using ZabaSearch.
Me, too--I'm in the North End.
Obama is a fraud. I think if people get past what they WISH him to be, and see him as he is, he's done for. Don't know if there's time, though.
All you need to know is that she said “I can’t talk until after 11/4” Who gave her those instructions?????
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Absolutely - and waht indiuce and/or threat came along with that “advice”?
This story explains the mysterious announcement from the Hawaiian DOH today about Obama’s birth certificate. He had to get them to vouch for him with this story coming out tonight.
Put the whole Drudge top page into perspective as it appears right now.
The only redline headline is Obama's Kenyan aunt is here illegally.
McCain, front and center giving a wink! (shades of Sarah?)
Obama, LEFT of page running away with his little girl.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Priceless!
This housing project should be renamed Barak’s Barracks. This is where he hides his poor relatives.
But of course, this comes out Friday night. This will get half a sentence on the weekend blabfests.
What birth certificate story?? HUH?
--oh, wait, I think I see where his "spreading the wealth around" is going. . .
To his Kenyan Hillbillies.
While he sits up there in Hyde Park with the china and the crystal and the lace curtains--his family is making do in a shack or with a box of U.S. Government cheese.
For somebody who puts on such airs--and sends his girls in a five-Suburban convoy to a fancy school--he sure is one classless piece of trash.
So true...and then Monday is gonna be flooded with early election MSM garbage.
Most interesting.
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