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Offline formerlurker

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Barack Obama’s aunt anguished by separation
« on: December 01, 2009, 05:14:04 AM »
Barack Obama’s aunt anguished by separation
By Associated Press  |   Tuesday, December 1, 2009  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Local Coverage


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BOSTON — President Barack Obama’s aunt buried her face in her hands and sobbed as she described her anguish that she no longer has contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing.

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, the half sister of Obama’s late father, says she has exiled herself from the family after attending Obama’s inauguration because she didn’t want to become fodder for his foes. Obama and his family have not reached out to her either, she said.

"Before, we were family. But right now, there is a lot of politics, and me, I am not interested in any politics at all," said Onyango, whose appeal for asylum from her native Kenya is before an immigration judge in Boston.

The Obamas are her only family in the United States, she said.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1215746&format=text

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Re: Barack Obama’s aunt anguished by separation
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 05:33:20 AM »
I'd be sobbing too if I had to leave the US for a place like Kenya.  But then, I also would never have stolen into another country and defrauded its government.

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Re: Barack Obama’s aunt anguished by separation
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2009, 05:52:53 AM »
Maybe he should give her a room in the WH like he did for his Mother in Law
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