Barack Obama's aunt faces crucial immigration hearing

Zeituni Onyango, who has lived in the US for eight years, could be deported to Kenya

Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 March 2009 15.45 GMT

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt of Barack Obama who has lived in the US for the past eight years, four of them illegally, is preparing for a crucial immigration hearing in Boston on Wednesday that could see her deported back to her native Kenya.

The 56-year-old woman, described affectionately by Obama as "Auntie Zeituni" in his bestselling memoir Dreams from My Father, is thought to have come to America in about 2000, living most the time in Boston. But in 2003 she became mired in immigration proceedings that culminated in a court order the following year ordering her deportation.

Her immigration status caused a ripple of controversy in the final days of last year's presidential campaign after the Times tracked her down to a special needs flat for disabled people in a rundown neighbourhood of south Boston.

When subsequently it was leaked that she had remained illegally in the US despite the court ruling, Obama was forced to comment, saying that he had not known about her status and suggesting she leave the country according to law. Since then the Obama administration has kept a scrupulous distance from the case..........



Whole article here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/27/zeituni-onyango-obama-aunt-deportation-immigration

Obama half brother refused UK visa

11/04/2009

US President Barack Obama's half brother was refused a visa to enter the UK because he had been accused of a serious crime on a previous visit, it has emerged.

Samson Obama was on his way to Washington for the President's inauguration in January but was stopped by immigration officials at East Midlands Airport.

Biometric tests discovered the Kenyan mobile phone shop manager was linked to a serious incident in the UK last November, the News of the World reported.

The newspaper said Samson was arrested by police in Berkshire after an alleged sex attack on a British girl but he was never charged.

A Home Office spokesman confirmed Samson Obama was refused a visa after immigration officers noticed one of the documents he supplied with his visa application was false which led them to make further inquiries...........



More here:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/latest/2009/04/11/obama-half-brother-refused-uk-visa-115875-21272258/