Category: Asylum seekers

Obama’s auntie is in US ILLEGALLY!

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Update May 17th, 2010: Zeituni Onyango is granted asylum in the US, here.

Update Dec. 31st: After I recently read Obama’s “Dreams from my father” I concluded there is no way Obama didn’t know she was in the US, she is not a bit player but an important part in the Obama family story.

Update Nov. 9th: Aunt Zeituni will fight deportation.

Update Nov. 2nd: No dirty tricks just good investigative journalism, see the latest here.

Update: Obama campaign claiming dirty tricks by Bush Administration.

You probably guessed it from the story at the Times that Judy reported the other day, but AP (yes AP!) is now reporting that Obama’s Auntie Zeituni entered the US illegally, sought asylum and was denied.  Four years ago she was ordered deported!  Hat tip:  Blulitespecial

WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama’s aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.

Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as “Aunti Zeituni” in Obama’s memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango’s case.

Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.

Why would any of the three, Bush, McCain or Obama, officially make this information available?  All three are complicit in our disastrous immigration policy and this is the first time the subject of immigration has come up in this entire overly long Presidential campaign.

The disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama’s presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South Boston for five years, was Obama’s half aunt on his father’s side.

Did you hear Rush Limbaugh play excerpts of the audio version of Obama’s “Dreams from my Father” yesterday where Obama says that Auntie Zeituni didn’t have a government support system in Kenya if things got tough, they had only family to fall back on!   It was hilarious!   How come Obama isn’t taking care of his family?   We know why now, the US taxpayer has been taking care of this family member.

It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order.

The difference between refugees and asylees is that refugees are screened in advance of being admitted to the US and we pay their airfare.   Asylees are people who come to the US illegally and then seek legal status by claiming and being required to prove that they have been persecuted for one of many reasons and thus have a fear of returning home.  We have an entire cottage industry of lawyers being trained in law schools across America to serve as immigration lawyers for asylees.

Asylees are treated as refugees with all the perks, welfare, housing, food stamps, medical treatment as a refugee.  I guess in Massachusetts they never bothered to check if her asylum status had been denied, or more likely they knew it and ignored the deportation order—any surprise?

One last point, in the earlier story at the Times, Auntie Zeituni admitted:

It is not clear when Ms Onyango first came to the US. She said: “I have been coming to America ever since 1975. I always come and go.”

So in all those trips back and forth to the US, for 33 years, no one ever spotted her as an illegal alien!

I guess the pressing next question is, where is Uncle Omar?

More here: Obama campaign flabbergasted yesterday.

Naples! Nepal! Somalis wanted the former and got the latter!

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Somali illegal immigrants in Nepal are protesting and say they were tricked by human traffickers.  They thought they were being taken to Naples (Italy!) and instead were dropped off in Nepal.   Nepal, which has recently managed to get a US promise to take 60,000 Bhutanese off their hands, is trying to figure out what to do with the Somalis.  From the BBC:

Somali refugees living in Nepal have been demonstrating in the capital Kathmandu to gain official recognition by the government. [Must be recognition of refugee status.]

They say their lives are miserable because they are not allowed to work and are threatened with heavy fines if they try to leave the country.

Many of the Somalis say they were tricked into coming to Nepal by people traffickers in Mogadishu.

Some say they were told they were being flown to the Italian city of Naples.

The government says it is aware of the refugees and is discussing what to do about them.

Of course, these Somalis would have been illegal immigrants to Italy too, and that country is having its problems with African lawbreakers.

I bet you anything the government of Nepal asks the US to take them.  What the heck, 60 or 70 Somalis is nothing slipped in with the 60,000 Bhutanese.    

If you think that sounds crazy, just a reminder we have taken Somali illegal aliens from Malta.  It is not so farfetched an idea.

Austrian takes action against criminal asylum seekers

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Update October 19th:   Haider died in a car accident a week ago and is remembered here at Gates of Vienna today.

Here is a story  (Hat tip:  Blulitespecial) just to illustrate Europe’s crisis situation with illegal aliens flooding Europe and then asking for asylum.  One regional governor in Austria has set up a facility for making sure these aliens aren’t mixing into the population. And, then of course, critics are linking him to Hitler.   That is the strategy of European advocates for open borders these days—anyone who disagrees is Hitler incarnate. It is a way of silencing decent people who wish to speak up on the issue.

In Europe you are a Nazi, in South Africa xenophobe is the favorite word and here it’s that you are downright racist if you question immigration policy.

VIENNA, Austria – Far-right Gov. Joerg Haider has set up a facility in the remote mountains of southern Austria to handle asylum seekers suspected as criminals, saying they need to be isolated to protect the people in the area.

Haider gained international prominence in 1999 when the Freedom Party, which he then headed, took 27 percent of the vote in Austria’s parliamentary elections. The party’s subsequent inclusion in the government led to months of European Union sanctions over Haider’s statements, which were seen as anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and sympathetic to Adolf Hitler’s labor policies.

U.S. attorney general orders asylum for victim of female genital mutilation

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CNN reports:

The U.S. attorney general is trying to prevent immigration authorities from sending a Muslim woman to her home country, where she was a victim of female genital mutilation.

In a stinging order overriding federal immigration courts, Mukasey blasted a decision that said a 28-year-old citizen and native of Mali should be expelled “because her genitalia already had been mutilated [so] she had no basis to fear future persecution if returned to her home country.”

Calling the rationale “flawed,” Mukasey sent the case back to the Board of Immigration Appeals with orders to reconsider.

The woman, a native of Mali, begged the court not to send her back to her Bambara tribe.

The 28-year-old said if she returned and had a daughter, the child also would be subject to mutilation. The woman also said she faced forced marriage if she had to go home.

Several members of Congress —  Reps. John Conyers, Zoe Lofgren and Sen. Patrick Leahy — had asked Mukasey to look into the matter after the court’s decision last January.

“Female genital mutilation is a gross violation of a woman’s human rights and has traditionally been grounds for the granting of an asylum claim,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, said in the letter.

This is always an easy call for government officials, who find the idea of genital mutilation stomach-turning, as any normal person would. The trouble is that the practice is widespread in certain countries of Africa and the Middle East. Any woman who makes it to America from such a country is therefore likely to get asylum. As with every refugee and asylum question, are we prepared to take all the women who want to come to America from these countries? NGOs and the UN are working in Africa to end the practice, with reported success. (Funny, I don’t hear about them working in the Arab countries of the Middle East. Maybe they wouldn’t get such an easy reception there.) If the members of Congress are really concerned about female genital mutilation, they should be supporting these efforts.

Hat tip to Bluelite Special. 

Asylees: having trouble in the UK? Canada will take you!

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We’ve been hearing lots of stories out of Great Britain and the rest of Europe too about immigration rules tightening.    Not to fear, here is a website called “Asylum Destitution Support Network” that instructs, among other things, on how to get into Canada.

If you are in the process of seeking asylum or been refused asylum in the UK, you will not be able to apply for asylum in another member country of the European Union.

However, if your asylum claim has been refused and the Home Office do not intend to remove you by force or cannot obtain travel documents to facilitate your removal, continuing to live in the UK with out the right to work or access to the normal benefits UK citizens are entitled to, life for you in the UK will be very harsh.

Likewise you may have made a claim years ago but Home Office has failed to make a final decision.

You may wish to find another country that will accept you as an economic migrant or refugee.

Economic migrants, by the way, are people literally flowing by the millions out of their home countries trying to find work (or a welfare security net).   This website instructs readers on all the programs available to them in Canada. 

Refugee/Economic Admission Programmes

Many countries have ‘Refugee’ or ‘Economic’ programmes, which allow refugees or people seeking work to apply for entry into their country from another country, which is not the country of residence of the applicant.

Notably Canada, who have various schemes to facilitate entry for refugees and economic migrants.

For all the details, read on.