Seconded and carried.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 06/14/2010 10:12:35 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Congressman Steve King, an Iowa Republican, today requested that President Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, testify before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law in order to address "the public perception that favoritism played a role in the grant of asylum to Ms. Onyango."
In a letter to the chair of the subcommittee, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, King writes that "[i]n order to better determine whether favoritism played a role - especially because Ms. Onyango had been earlier turned down for asylum and ordered deported in 2004 before her nephew became president - the Subcommittee needs to hear from Ms. Onyango herself."
"While I understand that asylum proceedings are generally confidential, Margaret Wong, Ms. Onyango's attorney, has clearly courted press attention regarding this matter," he continues. "In fact, I assume that the press learned that Ms. Onyango received asylum because of comments to the media made by Ms. Wong. Therefore, Ms. Onyango has made herself a public figure and should have no hesitation about appearing before the Subcommittee. Further, in order to facilitate Ms. Onyango's appearance before the Subcommittee, I request that you and Chairman Conyers authorize the Committee to reimburse her travel expenses."
Onyango was granted asylum last month; the half-sister of Mr. Obama's late father, she moved from Kenya to the United States in 2000.
Her 2002 application for asylum, which was tied to violence in Kenya, was rejected two years after she filed it. Despite that result, Onyango continued living in public housing in Boston.
When it was reported in 2008 that Onyango was possibly in the country illegally, Mr. Obama said he had no knowledge of her status. She testified on her own behalf in U.S. Immigration Court in Boston before being granted asylum this year.
The subcommittee hearing is set to take place Thursday morning.
Rep. Steve King, Raising Questions of Favoritism, Calls for Obama’s Aunt to Testify About Being Granted Asylum
I had to truncate the original title per posting guidelines.
We need immigration "reform" but not the kind the commie 'RATS and John McCain have in mind. The Feds need to start doing their jobs or step aside and let somebody else do it.
Auntie Obama: Yes asylum is OK...BVut i do have some complaints...I would like a better place to live in...I deserve it...I’m the 1st Auntie...you gave my nephew that great big house to rattle around in...and you only gave me, the 1st Auntie, this tiny dump...
Wow. Are the Republicans growing a spine??? Go for it! You KNOW there is an understory to this one!
My sentiments also we need to put a bounty on them and pay the local police the bounty, in this cash strapped economy they could really clean on the bounties.
OK, I vote we keep her in exchange for deporting Zero.
We may find in the long run that auntie gets upward of 2K a month by way of “Social Services”. Most likely totally tax free.
Seconded and carried.
Rahm, kill that Congressman and have his head placed at the gate to the White Palace as a warning to other uppity Republicans..."
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