The US government is investigating whether any laws were broken involving details about the disclosure that Barack Obama’s aunt was living in the country illegally. The Associated Press learned late Friday learned that Obama’s half aunt, who is from Kenya, was ordered to leave the United States years ago after an immigration judge denied her request for asylum.
The woman, Zeituni Onyango, is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama’s late father.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked its inspector general and the Office of Professional Responsibility on Saturday to investigate whether any policies were violated when information about Onyango’s case was publicly disclosed, ICE spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said. The Homeland Security Department, which oversees ICE, cannot disclose details about an individual’s immigration status.
Information about Onyango’s 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, just five days before the presidential election. Obama’s campaign strategist David Axelrod said people are suspicious about stories that surface so close to an election.
Obama said Saturday he did not know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should 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.”
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.
(Source: AP / Breitbart)
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Where was the outrage when the Obama campaign picked up all the shmutz on Joe The Plumber??? I guess what’s good for the goose is NOT good for the gander.
“This is not the Auntie I once knew…”
Obama was in a church for 20 years and never knew Wright was anti-semetic, anti-American, promoted AID’s conspiracies, anti-white, etc… Never heard, read, or seen anything in 20 years!!!
Now how would you expect Obama to know about what his Aunt is doing, or the status of her law-breaking? Come on, people!
Wait till they find his uncle!
BTW the London paper that found his auntie said they used his book as their guide.
a good point you raise #2
this man knows nutin but he can be the president huh?!
#3 figures it was a london paper — an american paper would NEVER had printed a bad word about ‘bama
#2 if bama attended church for 20 years and never heard rev wright, i guess we can go to shul 20 years and never listen to the rav’s drasha!
in the story:
his father never left his son — he was assigned to go back to kenya (as a us inteligence operative), then failed there, became a drunk and alcoholic when he failed in his mission, and died in a “car accident” and never finished his harvard phd thesis.
his step father, on the other hand, married his mother as a harvard phd, was assigned to malasysia as a “govt relations officer” for mobil oil (equals code word for local cia officer) till she ditched him. he came (back) to america, attended some two bit college called “occidental”, then got himself transferred to columbia (which does NOT accept transfer students — except they made an exception for this cia request.
‘bama then went to work for “business international company” as an “ecominic analyst (figuring such mundane things as how many tons of steel was produced in russia last year) as a known cia contractor. they then got him into harvard law school, where he abandoned them (but not before another cia operative got him a no show job as a “visiting lecturer ” (NOT professor) at univ of chicago, where he collected a salary and was an outside “community organizer.
etc etc etc.
this ios the real eduiucational, work history of ‘bama!