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.
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Obama’s aunt living in U.S. illegally? So is Barack Obama
BTTT.
Obamas aunt living in Southie? he said. I thought somebody was putting me on.
Yesterday, as word spread that Onyango was Obamas aunt, Wallace was bursting with pride.
I think its great to have her, he said. Maybe her nephew will visit.
My gosh, what an idiot, he sounds like a giddy school girl. I wish I knew how to post this loon's picture.
“Me thinks this is the dagger if it gets reported by even 1/3 of the MSM, Mr Obama...Checkmate.”
I feel sad for her as she’s an old lady. But the reality is that what Obama is doing to her, he’d do to the country.
For a vote, he’d sell us out in a heartbeat and put tens of millions of illegal aliens and their families on our shores and benefits.
Barack is here legally because his father is an American, Franklin Marshall Davis
I am a little skeptical about this. I hope no one on our side is getting information they should not have. Obama would so love that.
Is it illegal to get information about illegal immigrants living in the USA?
Whew! What happened to my country?
In any case, why the heck didn't the Obamas just sponsor the aunt?
What I find interesting is that this isn’t a story on Fox News.
From this link, FWIW....
Is an immigration sponsor responsible for immigrant beneficiary receiving federal assistance
The statute regarding the Affidavit of Support, Form I-864, states clearly that in order for an alien to immigrate through a family-based petition, and some employment-based petitions, they must overcome the public charge ground of inadmissibility. Therefore, the petitioner on the Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, must execute and submit a legally enforceable Affidavit of Support on Form I-864. The second paragraph of the instructions to Form I-864, advises the sponsor that by executing the form he or she is agreeing "to support the intending immigrant and any spouse and/or children immigrating with him or her" until the contract terminates. In cases where the Affidavit is executed by a spouse, even divorce does not terminate the obligation." Part 7 of Form I-864 states: "The sponsor must provide the sponsored immigrant(s) whatever support is necessary to maintain them at an income that is at least 125 percent of the Federal poverty income guidelines."
Well, the illegal auntie story’s on the front page of FNC’s website at the moment :)
I saw that but I have been watching since 7:00AM and I haven’t seen the story, unless I missed it.
That’s actually damn scary, replacing the national flag with the Obama flag.
Well, I don’t have a boob tube in here, so I couldn’t tell you. But I’ll bet more folks are getting their news off the web than the goggle box :)
One of the things about this story that really bugs me is that there seems to be no teeth in decisions made by the Immigration Department. Who is responsible for enforcing these decisions?
ICE, I suspect. Heck, if they won’t even deport violent criminals who are illegally, why would they go after a well-connected, otherwise law-abiding auntie who’s just sucking off the public teat.
if you knew her address there’s that one website to see if she’s registered
Yes, that would certainly explain why Obama didn’t want to sponsor her. He’s for sharing everybody’s wealth but his own.
However, I’m curious as to why she lost her asylum petition. Remember that this would have been around the time that Obama was involved with Odinga, and I would imagine this woman is also an Odinga relative (since Raila Odinga is Obama’s cousin). Did that mean that she was considered one of the aggressors, and hence not somebody who needed asylum? Remember, the entire Obama family in Kenya is very involved in Marxism and extreme left violent politics, and are followers of their local messiah, Odinga.
Time for Zeituni to go home? Amazing how illegal immigrants can suck on the public nipple for years and years and years and years and how her own nephew who is not currently short of cash, wont help her. And yet, AND YET, people who are against higher taxes are selfish?! What crap. Time for Zeituni to go home!
No, but he sure doesn't have a problem sharing yours or mine with everyone else.
His Kenyan aunt has basically retired here and never kicked in a dime of taxes or Social Security. I'll be she's on SSI even though you have to be a legal resident to pull off that scam
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