US Court Grants Asylum to Obama's African Aunt

[Elmore Furth]

Source: Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A U.S. immigration court has granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt, allowing her to stay in the country, her attorneys announced Monday.

The decision was mailed Friday and comes three months after Kenya native Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father, testified at a closed hearing in Boston, where she arrived in a wheelchair and two doctors testified in support of her case.

The basis for her asylum request hadn't been made public. People who seek asylum must show that they face persecution in their homeland on the basis of religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group.

Her lawyer, Margaret Wong of Cleveland, said last year that Onyango first applied for asylum ''due to violence in Kenya.'' The East African nation is fractured by cycles of electoral violence every five years.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/17/us/AP-US-Obamas-Aunt.html?_r=1&ref=news

[bergie321]

1. This should drive

The right wing noise machine nuts for a few days. I predict a special House or Senate bill to deport her by the end of the week.

[leftofcool]

2. Breaking News! Glen Beck's head explodes

[tomm2thumbs]

3. Kenya imagine?

Hannity is probably frothing

[rox63]

4. Despite any problems with her past status

The fact that she is the President's aunt might make her a target for abduction if she was sent back.

[marshall]

5. This is a huge weight off the president's shoulders

He no longer has to worry about being accused of interceding in his aunt's behalf, and he is free to invite her to stay with him and Michelle without becoming targets of the witch hunts.

[maddezmom]

6. kick

[AlphaCentauri]

7. US grants asylum to Obama's aunt

Source: The Age AU

A US immigration court has granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt.

The decision comes three months after a closed hearing in Boston at which the Kenya native, Zeituni Onyango, half-sister of Obama's late father, arrived in a wheelchair. Two doctors testified in support of her case.

The basis for her asylum request has not been made public. Asylum seekers must show that they face persecution in their homeland.

Her lawyer, Margaret Wong, said last year that Ms Onyango first applied for asylum ''due to violence in Kenya''.



Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-grants-asylum-to-obamas-aunt-20100518-vc4y.html

[Romulox]

8. This small bit of nepotism surprises no one. nt

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. Concur n/t

[dkf]

12. Obama's moral authority on immigration is now gone.

This is bad.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. But I thought you were against illegal immigration, not legal immigration.

This is entirely legal.

:shrug:

[Soylent Brice]

10. this is the 3rd or 4th dupe of this story in the last 24 hrs. FYI. n/t

[cbdo2007]

11. Cool, she should run for President in 2016 just to hear the Freeps freak out.

[totodeinhere]

13. The question is, if she were my aunt instead of Obama's aunt, would she still have gotten asylum?

n/t