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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Now multiply that by oh, 50 to 100 million in the next 20 years.
Really.
And that will be the U.S. if this freak gets in.
If she's here illegally, that's theft!!
Keep this bumped.
BTT!
According to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, twenty-eight percent (28%) express anger about immigration. 74% continue to believe the government is not doing enough to secure the nation’s borders. Just 12% think enough is being done.
26% Angry About Immigration, The Issue Candidates Ignore
Forty percent (40%) of likely McCain voters are angry about the current immigration situation. Among those who plan to vote for Obama, just 14% share the anger.
Eighty-three percent (83%) of those who plan to vote for McCain say gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers. Likely Obama voters are evenly divided on the importance of the two.
On top of the 30+ million living here?
No wonder NIETHER of the candidates want to discuss illegal immigration. (especially the skinny half-black one)
In case you missed it, the auntie at one time was considered “vanished”, as was an uncle.
See post here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121891/posts
I brought this down from the first of the thread in case some of you missed it. It sounds like an Acorn script.
Keeping this bumped!
Great job, potlatch. This needs to stay bumped.
Thank you so much Faith!
Ridicule. They ridiculed all those who would dare to speak the truth about him.
Biden is totally out of control today. Why does insane Biden not have to be vetted for being out of his mind?
He did deny knowledge of her status. I guess “denial” is just another word for ignorant and he wants to rule the world? hah! My McCain-Palin sign got trashed last night for Halloween. I’m fixing it and putting it out tomorrow with a McCain ad w/Hilary’s picture stapled to it. Barack Obama STEALS ELECTIONS. It’s as simple as that. He may be allowed to steal this one so there won’t be civil unrest.
pot - magnificent!
I want to see restitution to the great City of Boston and the Commonwealth repaid....with interest.
and tell her to get off her fat a.. and get an illegal job like all the other 1 million illegals in Massachusetts have...
Thank you bitt!
I don't care who you claim to support.
I don't apologise to trolls.
Enjoy life in your bizarre paranoid fantasy world.
Good luck with that.
Still — Vote McCain/Palin.
Perhaps Jim could make it a requirement of reading the home page, one paragraph at a time, prior to allowing posting privileges. But sign-up date is not an automatic flag, as some of the biggest and most evil trolls have (had) dates in 1998.
OTOH, some of us enjoy occasionally toying with the trolls, so Jim would be depriving us the pleasure of watching them get banned for not behaving themselves according to posted guidelines, and the viking kitty unwritten rules.
Do continue skipping over the ruminations of underhanded and/or overboard posters claiming to be FReepers.
Eventually, the worst of the “pop-up-add-posters” either get converted and learn how to behave, get banned, or tire themselves out and stop posting for long periods of time.
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