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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.
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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.
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loucardsfan
1:13PM Feb 4th 2010
Only if you have a CC permit in that state and only if the building or grounds are not state owned, or posted otherwise. I would suggest you leave it in the car, unless you want some bone head security person to prevent you from exercising your rights and then you have paid 550 to read about Palin in the paper. Are people really paying $550.00 to hear anyone speak? Thats just plain stupid.
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moderate
3:18PM Feb 4th 2010
You have it wrong, witch doctors and all such mythology is the domain of sara and her spell caster. How easily you lie when your heros are the ones who believe in the boogey man.
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(-7) Chuck
10:35AM Feb 4th 2010
What's to decide? EL boot o outta here. Interesting idea though. If they let her stay can Americans in a crime ridden neighborhood go to Mexico and claim asylum citing violence? And then get free everything?
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dhartson
12:05PM Feb 4th 2010
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!! GET OUT!!!! NOW!!! ENOUGH
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(27) suzebeez
3:02PM Feb 4th 2010
If she wins her case, at least one person in her family will be legal.
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(17) Zeckery
6:29PM Feb 5th 2010
I am no Obama fan by any stretch, but I don't necessarily think she should be kicked out.
She should not be treated any differently than anyone else in her circumstances and according to law. That - not politics - should be the deciding factor.
She should not be treated any differently than anyone else in her circumstances and according to law. That - not politics - should be the deciding factor.
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(5) cowboybill117
7:59PM Feb 11th 2010
Obama will the federal judge to make it look good than let her stay. the same why as he ordered the judges in his birth trails. Strange that all the Judges said a Citizen does not have standings to ask for proof.
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(0) pvcwife
10:42AM Feb 4th 2010
What part of "ILLEGAL" doesn't this woman inderstand? If she is told to leave, then she stays, she is BREAKING THE LAW!!!! However, I think the judge will take pity on her and let her stay for fear of backlash from the Obama supporters.
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(50) Eleanor Peters
1:32PM Feb 4th 2010
I think we shold ask ourselves what part of the illegal,s does our president not understand ? How did she get here in the first place and better still where is president Obama,s original B/c unless he had it destroyed ? He does not do these things unless he is hiding something. Plus his law term papers and documents. It matters not if she does nothing like selling drugs or causing trouble. She is an illegal for years and that is a CRIME.. So what do you mean by saying she had done no harm ? She is by law a criminal. She was told to leave and thumbed her nose at the laws of our country. does she have the right to stay here ? I would say no by all accounts. Period.
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(14) TexAngel
1:29PM Feb 12th 2010
The thing that has struck me is that Senator Obama HAD to have known that his aunt was illegal and that both as senator and president, President Obama was sworn to uphold the laws of the United States of America.
A nation is only as good and strong as its citizens are willing to uphold the laws and follow them, even when that citizen disagrees with the law. Even when a family member is involved, the concept of following the law must be held in highest esteem or the nation will crumble. To do otherwise is to fall into anarchy with each person deciding what laws they choose to follow without regard to the nation as a whole. All its citizens must subscribe to idea that "the good of the many outweighs the good of the few".
A nation is only as good and strong as its citizens are willing to uphold the laws and follow them, even when that citizen disagrees with the law. Even when a family member is involved, the concept of following the law must be held in highest esteem or the nation will crumble. To do otherwise is to fall into anarchy with each person deciding what laws they choose to follow without regard to the nation as a whole. All its citizens must subscribe to idea that "the good of the many outweighs the good of the few".
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(2) Hammer of Mac
10:47AM Feb 4th 2010
Zeituni Onyango.The American press Barack Hussain Obamas auntie,aunt,What is wrong with this? A hope you can belive in.Wha happened to ,see se puede
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(10) davidl7082
10:55AM Feb 4th 2010
Like there is some mystery about what will happen to Hussein's aunt. Give me a break. This story was not even worth printing.
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(22) rlau290541
10:57AM Feb 4th 2010
Wonder if he can check Obama's at the same time?
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(39) liberty1st4me
11:42AM Feb 4th 2010
That's what I was wondering.
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(21) markushka1
11:06AM Feb 4th 2010
Her hearing was naturally held behind closed doors!!
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(36) beckjr2000
11:26AM Feb 4th 2010
The fact that this was not resolved quietly a year ago says a lot about our President!
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(18) Stephanie
11:32AM Feb 4th 2010
Obama wants to be so PC especially with foreigners but he probably doesn't even bother with his aunt just like he doesn't see his brother.
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(15) moderate
3:15PM Feb 4th 2010
If he had intervened you would have screeched. To make a partisan comment about his brother, he does not even know the man he is a half brother in another country. You partisan hacks are getting ridiculous. Birfers and tea baggers are a foolish bunch!
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(-17) Philip Oliver
11:36AM Feb 4th 2010
Get Out of Here! And take your nephew with you!
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(27) NORMA C.
11:38AM Feb 4th 2010
They won't do anything u know that if they do then they had better send all these other illegals back to Mexico and other places and you know that BO won't stand for that. What a crock of poop this is
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