{"id":576197,"date":"2010-05-23T23:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/fair-obamas-aunts-case-illustrates-abuse-of-u-s-political-asylum-policy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T03:01:33","slug":"fair-obama%e2%80%99s-aunt%e2%80%99s-case-illustrates-%e2%80%98abuse-of-u-s-political-asylum%c2%a0policy%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576197","title":{"rendered":"FAIR: Obama\u2019s Aunt\u2019s Case Illustrates \u2018Abuse Of U.S. Political Asylum\u00a0Policy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Barack+Obama_1961_19785087_0_0_7051788_300.jpg\" alt=\"FAIR: Obama's aunt's case illustrates 'abuse of U.S. political asylum policy'\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">President Barack Obama&#8217;s paternal aunt Zeituni Onyango, who is a citizen of Kenya and was living in the United States illegally, has been granted political asylum by a court in Boston. <\/p>\n<p>The court accepted Onyango&#8217;s argument that she feared violence&#8212;she and Obama&#8217;s father, who was her half-brother, were members of the Luo tribe, a minority in Kenya&#8212;if she returned to that country. The ruling opens the way for her to apply for legal permanent residency in a year, according to <i>The Boston Globe<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>However, the court&#8217;s decision has angered immigration reform proponents, including the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The organization called it &quot;a case study in how those seeking to evade U.S. immigration laws can manipulate the system,&quot; and demanded that the entire record of the case be made public.<\/p>\n<p>FAIR representatives were particularly angered at the fact that Onyango was granted the asylum despite having her 2004 petition denied by a Federal immigration court, a ruling she ignored. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;[The] case is an all-too-typical example of how our asylum laws are used to thwart the enforcement [of] U.S. immigration laws,&quot; said Dan Stein, president of FAIR, adding that &quot;the system allows people who defy our laws repeated opportunities to [come up with] new reasons to be granted legal permission to remain.&quot;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19785087-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19785087\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama&#8217;s paternal aunt Zeituni Onyango, who is a citizen of Kenya and was living in the United States illegally, has been granted political asylum by a court in Boston. The court accepted Onyango&#8217;s argument that she feared violence&#8212;she and Obama&#8217;s father, who was her half-brother, were members of the Luo tribe, a minority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}