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.