Day: February 6, 2010

Decision on deporting Obama’s Aunt put off until March

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We told you the other day that Aunt Zeituni was due back in court in Boston on Thursday for a hearing on whether she should be deported to her native Kenya.  She had previously been ordered to leave the country and disobeyed an earlier judges order and stayed.   She was ‘outed’ just before Obama was elected to the Presidency in November of 2008.

From the Boston Herald:

From the designer sunglasses to the security entourage in gray suits and ear pieces, it was evident yesterday the towering, 6-feet-plus-tall Zeituni Polly Onyango is no garden-variety illegal alien.

The Kenyan aunt of President Obama – who arrived at U.S. Immigration Court in a wheelchair, but glided out on foot to the tapping beat of a cane – testified for 2 hours before Judge Leonard I. Shapiro in support of her second bid to be granted political asylum and continue living in Boston public housing.

“This is America. Justice will be done,” Margaret Wong, Onyango’s Cleveland, Ohio, attorney, told reporters. Wong refused to stipulate on what grounds Onyango seeks shelter from being sent packing back to East Africa.

Shapiro – whose 2004 deportation order the 57-year-old half-sister of Obama’s late father defied – is expected to render his decision on or before May 25. Closing arguments are due in writing by March 15.

Rush Limbaugh has had a field day criticizing Obama for neglecting his impoverished relatives  (especially George who lives in a hut) around the world, so he should get a kick out of this.  Obama has not even spoken to his aunt since before he was elected.  Imagine that!   If he is worried about public opinion I think he does more harm to himself by not at least talking to her and heck he should have invited her to Thanksgiving at the White House. 

The Boston Herald reports that Obama doesn’t even speak to his Auntie!

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the president is not kicking in cash to help cover Onyango’s legal fees and has not spoken to her since learning of her immigration status days before his November 2008 election.

Tom Tancredo: Temporary refugees never go home

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Thanks to Susan for sending this opinion piece by former US Representative Tom Tancredo regarding Temporary Protected Status for, most recently, Haitians.  We told you about the Obama Administration decision here.

From World Net Daily:

Like most “emergency” programs set up by government, the benefits of gaining “Temporary Protected Status,” or TPS, as a refugee do not expire when the emergency has passed. In government jargon, “temporary” can be 20 years – or forever.

The federal government has no system for tracking people previously awarded TPS since its inception in 1990. Thus, there is no way of knowing the total number of individuals now residing in the United States who first arrived under the TPS program, nor is there any reliable data on what percentage of TPS refugees eventually return home. But the nation’s experience with the first decade of the program led the Center for Immigration Studies to conclude, “In the real world, there is nothing as permanent as a temporary refugee.”

Within hours of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, President Obama announced the awarding of Temporary Protected Status to Haitians in the United States – people here illegally before the earthquake, a number variously estimated at 100,000 to 200,000. Indeed, over the past 20 years, most TPS recipients were people already in the county, not people fleeing a disaster.

Thus, while the program is largely defended on the humanitarian grounds of offering temporary safety to genuine refugees, it is undeniable that historically, the main function of the TPS program has been to to protect illegal aliens – people already here and thus not directly affected by any natural disaster – from the threat of deportation. 

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Americans are coming to realize that our nation’s immigration policies and refugee programs are based on lies, fantasies and politically expedient half-truths – and not on the best interests of the United States. TPS is one of those lies. “Temporary refugees” never go home, because the “emergency” never passes, and the lobby for new amnesties never rests.

Read it all!