Just wonderful -- 'auntie' gets to stay

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And rent-free in public housing no less. From the London Times (and not the American mainstream media for some very strange reason):
Obama�s �illegal� Kenyan Auntie wins the right to stay in America
President Obama�s �Auntie Zeituni�, who was discovered by The Times living illegally in Boston, was granted asylum in America yesterday in a controversial decision that will fuel the already charged debate on illegal immigrants.

A judge ruled that Zeituni Onyango, 57, the Kenyan half-sister of President Obama�s late father, would be allowed to stay in the country despite ignoring a 2004 deportation order.
A bit more:
She made a previous unsuccessful application for asylum, based on violence in her native Kenya, after which she was ordered out of the US.
A bit more:
She was an important character in Mr Obama�s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father. At the time of Mr Obama�s celebrated voyage of self-discovery to his ancestral home, in 1988, she was a computer programmer at Kenya Breweries in Nairobi.

However, just days before Mr Obama�s election victory in 2008, The Times discovered that Ms Onyango was living in a disabled-access flat on a housing estate in Boston � just miles from where Mr Obama studied at Harvard Law School.

Ms Onyango sought to avoid The Times�s inquiries. In a first telephone call, a woman believed to be her said that Ms Onyango had gone to California. In a second call, she said that Ms Onyango was dead. In a third call, she spoke French. When The Times finally caught up with her, walking outside her flat, she said that she had been going back and forth between Kenya and the US since 1975.

It quickly emerged that Ms Onyango was in the US illegally. She arrived in America on a temporary visa in 2000 to join a son who had been accepted at a college in Boston, her lawyer said. Her first request for asylum was rejected, but she did not comply with the 2004 deportation order.

After she was discovered, Ms Onyango hired a lawyer and filed a new asylum request � turning up to one hearing in a bizarre disguise that included a curly red wig, sunglasses, and an ankle-length coat of black and white fake fur.

Although Ms Onyango attended Mr Obama�s swearing-in as a US senator in 2004, Mr Obama insisted that he had not known she was living in America illegally. She also attended his inauguration as President.
I am sorry but if you have a legitimate job as a programmer (the Kenyan Brewery), you should not feel the need to seek political asylum unless there are some mental issues that need to be addressed. It is sad that a lot of the brilliant mathematicians and programmers that I have known have been batshit crazy. For B.H.O. to basically ignore her is batshit too -- maybe she voted for McCain and Palin -- now that IS batshit crazy. (set SNARK=OFF)

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