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A federal immigration judge will decide Thursday if Zeituni Onyango, President Obama's aunt, can remain in the United States after living here illegally for years, CNN reports.

The 57-year-old Onyango applied for political asylum in 2002, citing violence in her native country of Kenya. She was a legal resident with a valid Social Security card at the time, but her asylum request was turned down in 2004. Her immigration status came to light at the end of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Onyango is the half-sister of Obama's father and one of the president's many relatives scattered across Kenya, Hawaii, Southeast Asia and the United States. Obama has not commented on his aunt's immigration case, and the White House would only say that the matter "should run its ordinary course."

The case is being heard in Boston.
Filed Under: Barack Obama, Immigration

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marilynmonroew

Why would we leave someone in the United States and give them SSI and Medicaid just because they came for a visit and got sick??There are many people in our country being turned down everyday that has worked and payed into our Goverments programs and are being turned down now that they need to use them.They need to send her back.This is part of our problem that were in today.

September 22 2010 at 6:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
marntrr

we owe this lady nothing

September 22 2010 at 3:36 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
MSANITAB

This is the ONLY country that lets something like this go on. My husband was 26 yrs in military we lived 12 years of that in Europe and I worked goverment this allowed me to learn first hand about other goverments and thier laws We should help others BUT they need to FOLLOW the rules The People of our great land follow If they want to be part of the good old USA they need do it the correct way THANK YOU

September 22 2010 at 2:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
harleygangan

Well, Obama's aunt is only one of the problems with the system. She and sooooo many more illegals are here because the laws haven't been enforced. Our health care, medicaid, goverment assistant, all these programs are being bleed dry by all these illegals. Government assistance, I thought was for those who are citizens. NOT everyone is entitled. Says the LAW. But who follows the law these days. The trouble is government assistance should be cut off to those who can't prove citizenship or at least have a BIRTH CERTIFICATE, as we all have to have for proof we were born here. Why do the laws NOT apply to them. What makes anyone exempt from following the rules of law as we citizens do ???? Why is this continuing to happening to this country. Obama, WHY ?????????? And why should anyone be rewarded for having 20 kids on government assistance. I know some women who have had 3 kids and my tax dollars are paying for it. I'm sick and tired of seeing and hearing about this. Drug test anyone who is on government assistance. It should be manditory for christ sake. I know people who are on unemployment that aren't looking for employment because they get more from the government than they would make at a job. Things are terribly wrong. God help US !!!!!!!!

September 22 2010 at 11:22 AM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
amychenney1973

I do not understand this country. We have homeless people (although 90% is their own fault) that are in need for help and we worry about other countries first. If you are not here legally, I think we need to send you on your way the second that you are caught. No questions about it. Then I read she was getting disability....does that come from hard working citizens? Am I the only one that sees something wrong with that picture? It would have been cheaper to buy an airline ticket for her. Dont get me wrong, I am only a high school graduate and i know nothing about the law, I dont even vote...but this is part of the reason...the laws confuse me. Our own country should be first and for what I see on television, that NEVER happens on anything. Politics are for putting money in thier pocket instead of solving the problems.Then you hear...I WILL DO THIS IF YOU VOTE FOR ME...but nothing gets done...its all a gimmick...it doesnt matter who get allected, I dont understand why a common Joe cant be in politics...you shouldnt need a degree to do nothing. if you are in politics then START CHANGING THE LAWS!!!! isnt that what the degree is for, because I dont see what else you use it for.

September 22 2010 at 3:20 AM Report abuse +5 rate up rate down Reply

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