Obama Relegates Aunt Who Resides Illegally in US to the Shadows While Taking Her Campaign Contributions [Updated]
By Truthteller on November 1, 2008 at 6:40 AM in Barack Obama, Immigration Reform
(bumped up by NoQuarter)
According to Barack Obama’s website, he ostensibly desires to “bring people out of the shadows.” I quote:
Bring People Out of the Shadows
Obama and Biden support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.
Obama also outlines his (laughable) record on immigration reform. Conveniently elided from this list, however, is his aunt from Kenya. On 30 OCT 2008 we learned that Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, the child of Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, resides in a dilapidated public housing block in South Boston. Although residents of the same metropolitan area, she and Obama led parallel lives: he edited the Harvard Law Review and gamboled about Harvard Square, while she lived in squalor with other immigrants in an economically depressed area of Boston.
He did describe her affectionately in his memoir entitled Dreams of My Father, however. Recounting his first meeting with Onyango, Obama recalls how she said, “You take good care of Barry now.” “Make sure he doesn’t get lost again,” she admonished Obama’s cousin. But as Obama climbed the political and social ladders of the Ivy League and of inner city Chicago, he became more and more “lost” to the relatives about whom he waxes poetic in a text he wrote for personal and political profit.
“I have been coming to America ever since 1975,” Obama’s aunt boasts when interviewed by a London Times reporter. But there is one problem: Obama’s aunt is not a United States citizen. In fact, she received a deportation order in 2004, when her application for political asylum was rejected. I quote the New York Times:
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.
Zeituni Onyango’s status as illegal immigrant begs a few questions.
- How did she contribute a total of $260 to her nephew’s campaign in a series of small donations from her South Boston address if she is not a United States citizen?
- Are many illegal immigrants and foreigners submitting small donations to the Obama campaign in order to avoid scrutiny by the FEC?
- How does she qualify for public housing if she is not a United States citizen?
- How is Obama to be trusted to reform the immigration system if his relatives are breaking immigration laws and living illegally in this country?
- And why did the Senator not file a form I-130, a Petition for Alien Relative, on behalf of his aunt after her request for political asylum was rejected? As a United States Senator, he certainly could expedite the adjudication of such a petition.
Obama claims he desires to “bring people [immigrants living illegally in the United States] out of the shadows.” And yet, instead of assisting his aunt with her immigration problems, he swept her aside into the margins of society: not only did he leave her in squalor; he allowed her to stay in the country he desires to represent as President illegally. He did accept her campaign contribution, however. I guess this is what Obama considers “oversight.”
One can only characterize Obama’s treatment of his aunt as heartless. Exploiting her in his memoir while allowing her to live in this country illegally and in poverty, he once again demonstrates that he is nothing more than a careerist who has utter disregard for his family and for the laws of this country. Because he relegated a member of his family to the penumbra instead of assisting her with her problems, one can only assume he can run neither his house nor the White House.
I quote Michelle Obama:
And no, role models do not allow family members to break our country’s immigration laws. They also do not accept campaign contributions from those who are not US citizens.
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The image at the top of the story comes from the Fox News story, “Obama’s Aunt Reportedly Living Illegally in Boston.”
UPDATE at 11:20 a.m. ET: This story is featured at the top of Memeorandum.com.
by Ronald Scott
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