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Obama says he didn't know aunt's illegal status

By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
Nov 1, 2008

CHICAGO (AP) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.

The Associated Press found that Obama's aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama's late father.

A statement given to the AP by Obama's campaign said, "Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed."

The campaign said it was returning $260 that Onyango had contributed in small increments to Obama's presidential bid over several months. Federal election law prohibits foreigners from making political donations. Onyango listed her employer as the Boston Housing Authority and last gave $5 on Sept. 19.

Onyango, 56, is part of Obama's large paternal family, with many related to him by blood whom he never knew growing up.

Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., left the future presidential nominee when the boy was 2, and they reunited only once - for a monthlong visit when Obama was 10. The elder Obama lived most of his life in Kenya, where he fathered seven other children with three other wives. He died in a car crash in 1982.

Obama was raised for the most part by his mother and her parents in Hawaii. He first met his father's side of the family when he traveled to Africa 20 years ago. He referred to Onyango as "Auntie Zeituni" when describing the trip in his memoir, saying she was "a proud woman."

Obama's campaign said he had seen her a few times since that meeting, beginning with a return trip to Kenya with his future wife, Michelle, in 1992. Onyango visited the family in Chicago on a tourist visa at Obama's invitation about nine years ago, the campaign said, stopping to visit friends on the East Coast before returning to Kenya.

She attended Obama's swearing-in to the U.S. Senate in 2004, but campaign officials said Obama provided no assistance in getting her a tourist visa and doesn't know the details of her stay. The campaign said he last heard from her about two years ago when she called saying she was in Boston, but he did not see her there.

Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, noncriminal violation of immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the U.S.

The AP could not immediately reach Onyango for comment. When a reporter went to her home Friday night, no one answered the door. A neighbor said she was often not home on weekends. Onyango did not immediately return telephone and written messages left at her home.

Onyango was instructed to leave the country by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.

It was unclear why her request was rejected in 2004. A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an individual's citizenship status or immigration case.

Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one a federal law enforcement 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.

Onyango's case - coming to light just days before the presidential election - led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring that any deportations before Tuesday's election be approved at least at the level of the agency's regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement official told the AP.

The directive suggests that the administration is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's case coming to light so close to the election.

The East African nation has been fractured by violence in recent years, including a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007 that killed 1,500 people.

In Boston, Lydia Agro, communications director for the Housing Authority, said Onyango had been screened and approved for public housing as an "eligible non-citizen" when she moved in in 2003. She said the authority is not notified of deportation orders and did not know Onyango was related to Obama until two days ago.

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USA's first illegal alien president

www.obamacrimes.com

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Originally posted by Khyron:
Is this supposed to be the much-dreaded October surprise? C'mon, I wanted something interesting! Where's the "Whitey" tape? I want to see the "Whitey" tape!

Whitey tape! Whitey tape! Whitey tape!

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McCain/Palin: The first presidential ticket that features two candidates who have both been found to have violated ethics standards.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Obama sure was a cute baby!

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Originally posted by piratenews:

I bet public housing is full of illegal aliens.

Private apartment houses get govt grants to house illegal aliens, with exemption from fire and building codes for max capacity.

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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:

OMG that poor woman! I kinda feel sorry for her in a "she is pathetic" kind of way.

We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!

"We don't fear the reaper"

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Originally posted by Khyron:
Tell me, O2B, is every person with dark skin who wants to run for the presidency born in Africa, or just Obama?

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Tell me, O2B, was every person with dark skin who wants to run for the presidency born in Africa, or just Obama?

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Hmmm , seems Professor Williams would like illegal-Alien Obama-Sammy to keep his hands off
American wallets , and DOES NOT FAVOR the Socialist Scheme to " spread the Wealth around "...

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Hmmm , seems Professor Williams would like illegal-Alien Obama-Sammy to keep his hands off
American wallets , and DOES NOT FAVOR the Socialist Scheme to " spread the Wealth around "...

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I notice he doesn't point the finger of blame at any one party, but rather at ALL of the government. Has it ever occurred to anyone else here besides Frem that there's a reason the government got so large and in charge? Because we the people LET IT. We've made a conscious choice and effort to NOT be involved in politics, usually at ANY level, and then we act surprised when politicians act in the interests of those who show up...

...You're worried about the direction Obama would lead the country? From where I'm standing, it couldn't POSSIBLY be any worse than where we've been led in the last eight years - as long as we keep him firmly grounded and tell him exactly what it is we want our government to do (and NOT do).

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State Lawmaker Joins Quest for Information on Obama

"As a veteran and an elected official who takes an oath of office, just like every past and future President of the United States, to uphold and defend the Constitutional rights of the citizens I represent, it is greatly perplexing and beyond troubling that a political candidate can ascend to the White House without providing sufficient documentation verifying his or her place of birth or American citizenship," state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler County) said in a statement. "This legislation is intended to send the message that even those candidates who are running for our nation's highest office are not above the law."

Former Chairman of the Montgomery County Democratic Committee Philip Berg filed the suit against Obama, saying the candidate did not provide an authentic birth certificate. The judge ruled against him, saying harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was "too vague and its effects too attenuated to confer standing on any and all voters."

In an interview with PolitickerPA.com, Metcalfe said many of his constituents came to his office asking him about the validity of the lawsuit against Obama. When he and his staff researched the issue, Metcalfe said they were shocked to find out presidential candidates in Pennsylvania don't have to prove that they were born in the United States, or that they are a citizen.

Every other elected office in the state must provide proof they are eligible to run, he said.

"I think the majority of citizens would be shocked there isn't more oversight of candidates by state government," Metcalfe said.

http://www.americasright.com/2008/10/state-lawmaker-joins-quest-for.ht
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I was just curious who was so powerful they could order the White House to order the US military to stand down.

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...And in a final campaign in their heathen war against America, they've sent their prodigal illegitimate son to lead the country into a hole so deep that it won't ever be able to recover...

Obama/Biden: The first presidential ticket that features two candidates who have both been found to have violated ethics standards.

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USA DOA RIP

You know, on 9/11/2001, as I watched the robot airliners hit WTC, then WTC explode in controlled demolitions, I was neither shocked nor scared. I knew instantly that no Arabs could do that, since I've been in the Middle East and seen how they live. I was just curious who was so powerful they could order the White House to order the US military to stand down...

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Not to mention these supposed 'Arab' terrorists who'd flunked out of flight school were supposedly able to pull a 6.5G turn into target ,
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Boeing builds some fine flying machines , to be sure , but doing a Split-S from a high-cruise velocity isn't among the typical corners
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Boeing builds some fine flying machines , to be sure , but doing a Split-S from a high-cruise velocity isn't among the typical corners
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Although...

You'd be amazed at what a Boeing Jetliner can do, in extremis.

Did you know you can actually forward-drag-slip a 767-200, AND deadstick land it successfully ?

I kid you not, it's been done.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=744
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

AND the airframe continued in service till January this year, at which point they threw it a little parade and party at it's decommissioning.

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Wowza, they just don't make pilots that nutty anymore - that puts me to mind of Chuck Yeager.

-F

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Better than both of them , skills-wise , is Robert A. 'Bob' Hoover...

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Better than both of them , skills-wise , is Robert A. 'Bob' Hoover...

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I had the honor of watching Hoover do aerobatics in a twin-engined business plane (a Shrike Commander) some years ago. Simply stunning.

I'd put Jim Franklin high on that list of great pilots, too. I used to work crop-dusting with him at Burt Bruton's Aerial Spraying, and it was amazing to watch him work. Sadly, he died in an airshow crash a few years back.

Mike

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