Fate of Obama’s aunt to be fought behind closed doors

Boston Herald.com ^ | Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | Laurel J. Sweet

[texas booster]

The illegal alien aunt of President Obama could learn this week whether she can put down roots in Boston - or start packing her bags for a one-way trip back to Kenya.

And, save for U.S. Immigration Court Judge Leonard I. Shapiro, she’ll know before anyone else. Zeituni Polly Onyango has persuaded Shapiro to bar the public from her removal proceeding Thursday morning at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, though it’s unclear why.

“I assume (Shapiro) thought it would be a three-ring circus. She’s the aunt of the president of the United States - the most famous man in the world,” said Mike Rogers, spokesman for the Ohio law firm defending Onyango, 57, against the Department of Homeland Security.

Shapiro could not be reached for comment. However, Lauren Alder Reid of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, which speaks for the court, said closed hearings are “not uncommon.”

Reid said removal proceedings are sometimes held behind closed doors in cases of political asylum - such as Onyango is requesting - domestic abuse and security.

“The immigration judge will hear the merits of the case from both parties,” Reid said yesterday. “The judge may make a ruling from the bench, but there’s no guarantee.”

Onyango, she said, can call witnesses if she likes.

Neither Reid nor Rogers claimed any knowledge of Obama meddling on behalf of his late father’s African half-sister, and Rogers said Onyango isn’t trying “to capitalize” on family favortism.

“Everyone knows she’s related to him,” Rogers said. “It’s a no-win situation for him. He can’t get involved in this. The law has got to run its course.”

Onyango, a computer programmer, has been in the country illegally since 2004, when Shapiro ordered her to leave. Recent attempts to reach her at the South Boston housing development where she’s been living since a December 2008 stay of her deportation have been unsuccessful.

[texas booster]

BUCKING TO STAY IN U.S.: President Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Polly Onyango, 57, relaxes outside her South Boston apartment last July while wearing pearls and a dress her nephew gave her.

I wager that this woman has never been a "computer programmer" in the US.

And again, why should Immigration allow someone who has already broken numerous laws and leeched off Mass citizens for YEARS be allowed to stay in the US? In public housing??

IMO, going closed doors means that someone (R.E.) sent a note to the judge with instructions on the outcome.

[ncfool]

Aunt Zeituni should move into the Whitehouse with the first family. Why not give here the best that BHO has afterall its family.

[bcsco]

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[freebird5850]

I have a feeling that the fix is in. Remember we are living in bizarroworld now.

[bcsco]

Oh, I have no doubt. I’ve thought lately, this is the only accomplishment he’ll have in his first year. Well, it’s taken a little longer than that, but I expect it to come true.

[camle]

does anybody seriously doubt that she’ll be given permanent resident status? if her relationship with the O-man doesn’t clinch it, that leg shot ought to..

[jacob allen]

Why would she want to live in “God Damn America?”

[cake_crumb]

She wears clothes as well as Michelle

[SharpRightTurn]

Let her move into a hut on the White House grounds. Then bring Zero’s half-brother over from Kenya along with his 5-foot by 9-foot hut and put it on the grounds. Put the entire Obummer/Soetoro extended clan in huts on the W.H. grounds. Let the American people experience what third-world immigration is doing to us.

[HighlyOpinionated]

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Pond Scum to the bottom.
Pond Scum flaunting a leg, under the marbles in the aquarium.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

the only computer programming this woman possibly ever did was fill the paper tray for print-outs

[ODDITHER]

It wouldn’t have been so bad to find out that the Aunt had overstayed her visa if she had not been living on the govt dole for the entire time and had no one else in the US to help her.
She has a nephew that could have and should have helped her get her visa or return to Kenya. He was aware that the law was being broken and should have done something about it.

[texas booster]

Just adding to the photo files of Auntie Zeituni. From April 2009:

Zeituni Polly Onyango, 56, wearing a rust-colored wig, was captured in this cellphone photo leaving an immigration hearing yesterday in Boston. She is fighting deportation to her native Kenya. (TheBostonChannel.com)

President Obama's aunt swept through immigration court in dramatic fashion yesterday after months in hiding, smiling broadly and saying "praise God" after a judge granted her 10 more months to fight deportation to her native Kenya.