Expose Obama
May 18th, 2010Boston Herald
Obama’s aunt is getting special treatmentPresident Obama’s unsinkable Kenyan Aunt Zeituni Onyango – already adopted by her South Boston neighbors with open arms – can now call her L Street public housing home sweet home, after she was granted political asylum yesterday.
“She’s a very nice person – very well-spoken. I don’t mind her staying here. That’s life,” said Marion Swain, one of Onyango’s delighted pals at the Boston Housing Authority’s Monsignor Powers apartments, where the quirky, towering half-sister of Obama’s late father has become a fixture at Friday night bingo.
It remains a mystery how Aunt Zeituni’s legal team got the immigration judge to reverse himself on deportation, but the White House insists the president had nothing to do with it.
A man sunning himself in the Southie projects courtyard flashed two big thumbs up on hearing that U.S. Immigration Court Judge Leonard I. Shapiro – whose initial 2004 deportation order Onyango defied, staying in the United States illegally – would now let her apply for a work visa and green card based on private testimony she provided in February.
The basis of her request to remain in the United States has not been made public. Her defense team has claimed she suffers from the paralyzing autoimmune disorder Guillian-Barre syndrome, and one lawyer last year cited “violence in Kenya.”
