""I loved President Bush," Onyango said while moving toward a framed photo of Bush and his wife standing with Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House on inauguration day. "He is my No. 1 man in my life because he helped me when I really needed that help."" (end of article) 12/1/2009
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4/8/14, "Zeituni Onyango, President Obama’s aunt who fought deportation, dies," Boston Herald, John Zaremba
"Zeituni Onyango, the aunt of President Obama who fought deportation in a controversial courtroom saga in 2008, has died, her immigration lawyer told the Herald.
Onyango died this morning at a rehabilitation hospital after a lengthy bout with cancer and respiratory ailments, attorney Margaret Wong said.
“She’s been ill for quite some time. She didn’t like people to know, because she is so strong,” said Wong, who kept in touch with Onyango in recent years and called her “auntie.”
“I don’t think she accepted she was dying,” said Wong. “She just kept thinking she needs to go on.” Onyango, a Kenyan national whose illegal-immigrant status came to light during her nephew’s first presidential bid, was famously defiant in her fight for asylum and insisted she had a right to live in taxpayer-funded housing in South Boston.
Onyango’s family is making funeral arrangements, which are being complicated because of her estrangement from her husband’s side of the family, Wong said."
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12/1/2009, "Obama's Aunt: 'I carry my own cross,'" AP via NBC News
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Multi-millionaire Mr. Obama lectures us that we must be our brother's keeper, we must sacrifice. Since he won't. Struggling taxpayers in an economic depression have been taking care of his aunt for years because her multi-millionaire nephew refused to. Presumably taxpayers also picked up at least a portion of years of legal bills she accumulated as well as medical bills. Obama knew his aunt took up precious public housing that could've been used by someone without a multi-millionaire relative:
4/8/14, "Controversial aunt of President Obama dies," WCVB.com, Boston
"Zeituni Onyango fought deportation, granted asylum in 2010"
"Onyango, 61, who was born in Kenya in 1952, was granted asylum in 2010 after her first asylum request in 2002 was rejected and she was ordered to be deported in 2004.
She did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston. Her status was revealed just days before Obama was elected in November 2008.
At the time, then-candidate Obama said he did not know his aunt was living in the country illegally and that he believes laws covering the situation should be followed.
She was the stepsister of the president's late father, Barack Obama Sr..
Onyango’s funeral arrangements are pending." via Lucianne
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Sept. 21, 2010, Aunt Zeituni said the US is obligated to make her a citizen. WBZ-TV report via Live Leak:
Boston (WBZ): "If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen." Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV.
Onyango is the aunt of President Barack Obama. She lived in the United States illegally for years, receiving public assistance in Boston."...
Obama's Aunt Zeituni: US Has Obligation to Make Me Citizen
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Comment: No one says US taxpayers shouldn't pay for a person who needs help. The issue is how is it decided which of the billions of people in the world who need help will get the help of the US taxpayer? How is it decided that an illegal alien will be subsidized by the US taxpayer before an equally needy person who's a US citizen and legal resident?
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12/1/2009, "Who is subsidizing Obama’s illegal alien aunt (besides taxpayers, that is)?" Michelle Malkin
"She’s still here. She’s still appealing her deportation order. She’s still living in public housing in Boston.
Over and above whatever government subsidies she is receiving, someone else is paying her legal, living, and medical expenses. Who?
President Obama’s illegal alien aunt chattered away with an Associated Press reporter, but she refused to say who’s paying her way:
President Barack Obama’s aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish over no longer having contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing.Last fall, I reported exclusively on the cease-and-desist order that the Bush administration imposed on ICE agents to stop them from picking up Onyango before Election Day. Flashback:
Zeituni Onyango told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that she is troubled that her immigration woes have made her a political liability to her nephew.
…Onyango helped care for the president’s half brothers and sister while living with Barack Obama Sr. in Kenya. She moved to the United States in 2000 and applied for asylum in 2002, but her request was rejected and she was ordered deported in 2004.
However, she did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston. She had been a health care volunteer but not since her status became public. She refused to discuss how she affords to live now or who is paying for her attorney.
Onyango said she previously had no trouble visiting Obama when he was a state senator in Illinois or after he became a U.S. senator, though she declined to discuss details of how often she had contact with Obama and his family. Her tiny apartment in a modest subsidized public housing complex for seniors and the disabled is adorned with photographs of her with Obama at the Illinois Statehouse, the president’s official portrait, his family, the inauguration, her children and African wildlife.
She is disabled and learning to walk again after being paralyzed for more than three months because of an autoimmune disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
According to my sources, the Bush administration issued a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare Obama embarrassment over his Kenyan half-aunt, Zeituni Onyango. The Associated Press had reported on Nov. 1 that Onyango was a deportation evader – one of an estimated 700,000 illegal alien absconders who have ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country. The wire report mentioned that the Department of Homeland Security distributed “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.”Well, Onyango is now talking about the order — and she has nothing but praise for Bush’s dangerous open-borders policy in his lame-duck days:
But the politicized order was even worse than the AP reported. The deportation process wasn’t simply slowed down for public relations reasons and fear of a media backlash. The process was completely frozen.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement source familiar with Western field offices told me: “The ICE fugitive operations group throughout the U.S. was told to stand down until after the election from arresting or transporting anyone out of the U.S. This was done to avoid any mistakes of deporting or arresting anyone who could have a connection to the election, i.e., anyone from Kenya who could be a relative. The decision was election-driven.”
Another source close to ICE operations in a southern California field office confirmed that immigration officials there received the same directive: “The reason they included all offices in the US was to show that they were not targeting the district Office where Aunti lived. They don’t want to pick her up by mistake and cause a big problem.”
In other words, the Bush Department of Homeland Security determined that protecting Barack Obama from the negative publicity surrounding a potential arrest of his illegal alien aunt was more important to the general welfare of the country than tracking down untold numbers of deportation absconders who received an extra three-day pass last week. DHS refuses to comment publicly about the case.
Onyango reserved special words of kindness for former President George W. Bush for a directive he put in place days before the election requiring federal agents get high-level approval to arrest fugitive immigrants, which directly affected Onyango. The directive made clear that U.S. officials worried about possible election implications of arresting Onyango.Unfortunately, we’ll never know many criminal illegal aliens benefited from the Onyango protection order that put political considerations over immigration enforcement.
She said she wants to thank Bush in person for the order, which gave her a measure of peace but was lifted weeks later.
“I loved President Bush,” Onyango said while moving toward a framed photo of Bush and his wife standing with Barack and Michelle Obama at the White House on inauguration day. “He is my No. 1 man in my life because he helped me when I really needed that help.”
The curse of open-borders bipartisanship won’t be lifted any time soon."
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