CLEVELAND — A U.S. immigration court has granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt, allowing her to stay in the country, her attorneys announced Monday.
The decision was mailed Friday and comes three months after Kenya native Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama's late father, testified at a closed hearing in Boston, where she arrived in a wheelchair and two doctors testified in support of her case.
Onyango plans to apply for a work visa and can apply for a green card after she gets it, her attorneys said.
The basis for her asylum request was never made public. People who seek asylum must show that they face persecution in their homeland on the basis of religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group.
"The asylum process is confidential and she wants to keep it that way, so we can't get into details on why the judge granted asylum or the exact basis for her claim," said her attorney Scott Bratton. He added: "She doesn't want people to feel sorry for her."
Another lawyer, Margaret Wong of Cleveland, said last year that Onyango first applied for asylum "due to violence in Kenya." The East African nation is fractured by cycles of electoral violence every five years.
Medical issues also could have played a role. In a November interview with The Associated Press, Onyango said she was disabled and was learning to walk again after being paralyzed from Guillain-Barre syndrome, an autoimmune disorder.
Onyango moved to the United States in 2000. Her first asylum request was rejected, and she was ordered deported in 2004. But she didn't leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston.
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15 comments:
The violence in kenya and the rest of the black occupied nations in africa have continued for many years , as will this country soon. All muslim nations are at war in some way. Get ready guys , it's a commin!
How is the handicapped woman who hasn't been able to pay her own way for a decade going to actually use her work visa again?
let her stay - make him go.
Other than the fact that Kenya is only about 10% Muslim you would have a great argument. In fact Kenya is about 75% Christian. So it appears you are blaming the wrong religion for Kenya's woes
The violence comes from the non-believers .
This woman should have nothing to worry about in Kenya, they love Obama there and I'm sure they would love his aunt. Send her back.
Did you expect anything different? This administration is making all kinds of crap happen. Look out, it's only just beginning!
Good for her
Disabled and in a wheelchair.... and she'll apply for a work visa??
With which she will do?....?
just another amnesty case...
Pardon me, but it is the so-called Christian skin head kids in Amerika who are doing all the killing out there! Please.
What is wrong with you people?
You can't seem to self-evaluate at all. You are mind controlled.
7:33 It's misleading to take a fraction of a so called Christian group and try to paint the whole religion as violent ! What other religion feeds the hungry around the world ? Christianity is a passive religion focused on helping the needy what kind of person are you I bet you help noone !
YEs it is also misleading to tak a fraction of the Muslim religion and paint the entire religion as violent.
I agree with 6:10
"the east african nation is fractured by cycles of electoral violence every five years."
so what? we have our electoral violence every 4 years. with a bonus 'we really missed' you elections every couple years.
and how does an illegal immigrant get section 8 housing? how is this fair?
and someone has already touched on the 'disabled and in a wheelchair, yet asking for a work visa' nonsense.
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