Shangazi wa Rais Obama apewa Asylum Marekani!

Hatimaye, Zeituni Onyango (57) mkazi wa Boston, Massachusetts na pia shangazi yake rais Obama kapewa ruhusa ya kukaa Marekani kihalali. Amepewa 'asylum' kutokana na afya yake mbaya na pia fujo za kisiasa huko Kenya. Kesi yake ilifuatiliwa kwa makini tangu Rais Obama alivyokuwa anagombania uraisi. Wazungu wenye fikra za kibaguzi walimtumia kama mfano na kusema eti Kenya nzima itahamia Marekani kama Obama atachuguliwa kuwa rais!

Watu wengi kutoka nchi za Afrika wana asylum hapa Marekani. Pia kuna waBongo waliopewa. Wanapata kutokana kuhofia maisha yao wakirudi kwao, fujo za kisiasa, kuteswa kutokana na imani za kidini nk. Hata wanawake kuogopa kutahiriwa.

Sasa ataweza kuleta familia aliyoacha huko Kenya kihalali.

Rais Obama anasema hakuhusika kabisa na uamuzi wa jaji.

HONGERA SHANGAZI ZEITUNI!

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Obama's aunt can stay in U.S.
Posted: May 17th, 2010 01:42 PM ET
From CNN's Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers

Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt can stay in the United States, a U.S. immigration judge has ruled, ending a more than six-year legal battle over her status.
Judge Leonard Shapiro made the decision Friday, court officials told CNN.

Two government sources confirmed Monday that the ruling will give legal status to Zeituni Onyango, 57, allowing her to remain in the country.

Onyango's attorneys held an afternoon news conference on the matter in Ohio.
Onyango, who is the half-sister of the president's late father, applied for political asylum in 2002 due to violence in her native Kenya. She was a legal resident of the United States at the time and had received a Social Security card a year earlier.

Onyango's asylum request was turned down in 2004. She appealed the rejection of her request twice, but was denied each time and ordered to leave the country. Onyango remained in the country illegally until April of 2009, when Judge Shapiro gave her permission to stay in the United States while he considered her case.In February, Onyango arrived at an immigration court in a wheelchair and testified before the judge for more than two hours, her representative, Amy Cohn, told CNN at the time. Two doctors, including her personal physician, also testified on her behalf. Onyango's medical condition was part of her legal defense against expulsion.
White House officials said during the appeals that Obama was staying out of the matter.

"The president believes that the case should run its ordinary course," the officials said.
Onyango's immigration status came to light in the final days of the 2008 presidential race.

Shangazi yake Obama wa Boston atakuwa Deported

Hivi kwa nini wameamua kutoa habari za shanagzi yake Obama siku za mwisho mwa kampeni? Halafu sasa akina McCain watadai kuwa Obama ndo alimsaidia kukaa hapa Boston. w Msishangae wakidai kuwa Obama ataleta waKenya wote Marekani akichaguliwa! Navyosikia Obama hamjui vizuri huyo mama. Ni ndugu wa baba yake.

Bi Zeituni Onyango (pichani) anakaa hapa Boston, tena South Boston kwenye projects (Nyumba za maskini). Hapa Boston kuna maelfu ya watu kutoka nchi mbalimbali ambao hawana makaratasi. Ni wazungu, watu wa asia na waafrika. Kwa nini wanamsumbua huyo mama?

Lakini inaelekea kuwa serikali imeingilia kimya kimya. Wameona kumfukuza sasa hivi si vizuri.

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Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.

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.

Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment 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 refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of U.S. 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 United States.

The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004.

Onyango is not a relative whom Obama has discussed in campaign appearances and, unlike Obama's father and grandmother, is not someone who has been part of the public discussion about his personal life.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an individual's citizenship status or immigration case.
Onyango's case -- coming to light just days before the presidential election -- led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement official told the AP.

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

Kenya is in eastern Africa between Somalia and Tanzania. The country has been fractured in violence in recent years, including a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007 that killed 1,500 people.

The disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama's presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South Boston for five years, was Obama's half aunt on his father's side.

It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order.
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Government sources tell the AP that Barack Obama's half aunt, a Kenyan woman, is in the country illegally.

Zeituni Onyango has been living in Boston. An immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago. The reason is unclear.

Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of U.S. immigration law. Many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the U.S.

The AP could not could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in the release of information about the case.