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Obama’s Aunt Zeituni, the most famous illegal alien in America is back in the news. I wrote on ol’ Aunt Zeituni a few months ago: “Auntie Zeituni, President Obama’s 56 year old aunt, has been quite a topic lately. After overstaying her visa and blatantly ignoring a federal judge’s deportation orders in 2003, she left Boston to escape deportation and settled for awhile in Ohio. However, for the last five years she has been living in public housing in South Boston. It’s never been clarified how she would have been eligible for government assistance and public housing with a standing...

When Barack Obama first met his Auntie Zeituni at an airport in Kenya in 1988, his late father's sister told him, "Welcome home," and kissed him on both cheeks. Obama was on a pilgrimage to the land where his African father lived apart from Obama's American mother. Zeituni Onyango then told Obama's older half-sister Auma, "Make sure he doesn't get lost again." What does that mean? Obama asked. As he wrote in his compelling memoir, "Dreams from my Father," Onyango answered, "Don't get lost" is a common expression: "Sometimes it has a more serious meaning. Let's say a son or...

I hope Barack Obama remembered to thank George W. Bush on behalf of his illegal-alien aunt this week. The lame-duck Republican president did the Democratic president-elect a generous — and dangerous — favor right before Election Day: Putting politics above homeland security, the Bush administration ordered immigration authorities across the country to halt all deportation enforcement actions until the campaign season was over. According to my sources, the Bush administration issued a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his Kenyan half-aunt, Zeituni Onyango. The Associated Press reported on November 1 that Onyango was...

BOSTON - President-elect Barack Obama’s aunt intends to fight a deportation order and remain in the United States, her immigration lawyer said today. The Associated Press found that Zeituni Onyango, 56, is staying with relatives in Cleveland after fleeing her public housing apartment in Boston. She had been living there five years.