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Obama’s Aunt: ‘United States Has The Obligation To Make Me A Citizen’

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Zeituni Onyango is the native Kenya half-sister of President Obama‘s late father who suddenly finds herself back in the media spotlight. Last night, Boston’s WBZ-TV broadcast an interview which is sure to polarize many citizens concerned with the plight of illegal immigration in the United States. “If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen,” said Onyango, which is sure to be used over and over again by those looking to embarrass the president.

Associated Press reports:

President Barack Obama’s aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston, said in her first interview since being granted asylum that the United States has an “obligation” to grant her citizenship.

“If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen,” Zeituni Onyango told WBZ-TV in an interview that first aired Monday.

Onyango came to the U.S. from Kenya in 2000 and was denied asylum by an immigration judge in 2004. She was granted asylum in May by the same judge who said she could be in danger if she returned to her homeland.

She said she had intended to return to Kenya but fell critically ill and was hospitalized. When she was discharged, she was penniless and lived in a homeless shelter for two years.

Video of the first of the two-part series can be viewed below (part 2 is planned to air tonight):

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  • Rogue-Comic

    I see no problem with this. She applies for citizenship, takes the appropriate classes and then the oath.

    Just like Ziva from the CBS drama ‘NCIS.’ ; )

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    I can picture President Obama, drinking his orange juice this morning, reading this and thinking to himself, “Awww shit…….”

  • atreyue

    Rogue-Comic said:
    I see no problem with this. She applies for citizenship, takes the appropriate classes and then the oath.

    Just like Ziva from the CBS drama ‘NCIS.’ ; )

    You’re totally right. THat’s exactly what you’re supposed to do when you legally immigrate to the U.S.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/ronke-a/509394975 ronke a

    LOL Andy Lamb. So true. Why does she keep giving interviews???

  • Big Eddie

    Illegal Aunt .

  • greg454

    Obligation? A friend of mine, the son of an American father, spent 8 freaking years waiting to get his greencard, which includes about $25,000 in legal fees from other different visas he had to take to stay LEGALLY in this country.. Seriously, he could have paid a bimbo $10,000 to marry him and gotten his greencard in 8 months, but no, he decided to do things the legal way. Yet now this woman who doesn’t even have an American father thinks this country owns her anything? Are you kidding me? Anyone who knows asylum law knows that it’s usually a temporary measure and then you’re supposed to go back to your country, with the exception of Cubans of course. Asylum gives you a greencard and the right to work, it doesn’t automatically grant you citizenship. That privilege has to be EARNED.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Craig-Brockman/1509962333 Craig Brockman

    “[...] which is sure to be used over and over again by those looking to embarrass the president.”

    He does a fine job of that all by his lonesome!

  • felixw

    The Left loves to drag Sarah Palin’s family into the news. Let’s see how much they enjoy a taste of their own medicine.

  • Mr.Papshmer

    Awesome!!! Keep this broad demanding stuff from America…. Right up till election day!

  • Z_man723

    In the full article it mentions that she hired a top immigration attorney from Cleveland even though she claims poverty. When asked how she pays for it she responded with, “When you believe in Jesus Christ and almighty God, my help comes from heaven.” What a joke.
    How about someone investigates that?

    http://wbztv.com/local/obama.aunt.zeituni.2.1921954.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    ronke a said:
    LOL Andy Lamb. So true. Why does she keep giving interviews???

    Who knows? Far left groups sent vans to homeless shelters stocked with five dollar bills and cigarettes to buy votes in the last couple of elections (not a loose claim, a fact based on convictions for this being done.) Maybe someone from the far right slipped her a five dollar bill and a carton of cigs and said “it’s interview time, Zeituni !!”

  • fallenchicken

    felixw said:
    The Left loves to drag Sarah Palin’s family into the news. Let’s see how much they enjoy a taste of their own medicine.

    You have a point. But in all fairness, Sarah Palin is more embarrassing than the rest of her family.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/ronke-a/509394975 ronke a

    Maybe someone from the far right slipped her a five dollar bill and a carton of cigs and said “it’s interview time, Zeituni !!”

    ROFLMAO!!! Lord help me, Mediate journalists and commenters are on a roll today.

    P.S. Andy Lamb, you’re not allowed to be this funny when I am work!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/ronke-a/509394975 ronke a

    I meant to say “when I am at work.”

  • notsofast

    Andy Lamb said:
    I can picture President Obama, drinking his orange juice this morning, reading this and thinking to himself, “Awww shit…….”

    i bet he did a “spit-take.”

  • notsofast

    Obama’s Aunt: ‘United States Has The Obligation To Make Me A Citizen’

    She later said the US had an obligation to “provide her with food,housing, a job, a car, an education, health care,etc. if she is NOT made a citizen!!

  • Moderate

    This country needs more freeloaders, they make good Democrats.

  • More Liberty

    This is truly disgusting, but typical of a segment of our society that believes everyone else owes them something. She is vastly different than her little nephew. While I don’t agree with Obama’$ politics or elitism, I do commend his hard work. He got to where he is by hard work, sacrificing, having goals and accomplishing those goals. His aunt just sits in a crappy apartment paid for by the US taxpayer.

  • timzank

    With $700 bucks a month and free housing why would she go home? Anybody cross reference her name on the voter registration rolls? I’ll bet she’s on it (courtesy of acorn or seiu).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    ronke a said:
    Maybe someone from the far right slipped her a five dollar bill and a carton of cigs and said “it’s interview time, Zeituni !!” ROFLMAO!!! Lord help me, Mediate journalists and commenters are on a roll today. P.S. Andy Lamb, you’re not allowed to be this funny when I am work!

    Looking for a blogging job……or maybe a stand up gig…….still waiting for callers.

  • Roger-AZ

    What an attitude! Her own family doesn’t care to put her up but she expects my taxes to support her.

  • fill32162

    Make her a czarina of illegal immigrants scams and petty crimes (new office in HEW).

  • libra blue

    A presidential illegal immigration freeloader.

  • notsofast

    libra blue said:
    A presidential illegal immigration freeloader.

    Translation: a lib

  • 1stamendmentlost

    I know this is a bit off-topic, but I have to post it since we all know Mediaite wouldn’t dare cover it:

    Obama: “Mexicans” Were Here “Long Before America Was Even An Idea”

    “Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land,” President Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

    Mexico declared its independence on September 16, 1810. It was recognized on September 27, 1821.

    The United States of America declared its independence in 1776.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/21/obama_mexicans_were_here_long_before_america_was_even_an_idea.html

    I gotta think that if Palin said it, it would be front line news for days!

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    notsofast said:
    Translation: a lib

    Funny; my family was here before yours.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    1stamendmentlost said:
    I know this is a bit off-topic, but I have to post it since we all know Mediaite wouldn’t dare cover it:

    Obama: “Mexicans” Were Here “Long Before America Was Even An Idea”

    “Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land,” President Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

    Mexico declared its independence on September 16, 1810. It was recognized on September 27, 1821.

    The United States of America declared its independence in 1776.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/21/obama_mexicans_were_here_long_before_america_was_even_an_idea.html

    I gotta think that if Palin said it, it would be front line news for days!

    Mexians are a mixture of Spaniards, Portuguese and the indigenous people such as Aztecs, Mayans and Tainos, so Obama is actually right here. While they may not have been called “mexicans” the people themselves were here for a long time.

  • 1stamendmentlost

    Reasonable Lib, If it had been Palin that said it, I’m sure you would be defending her as vigorously. I’m just surprised Obama didn’t list Mexico as one of our 57 states.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    1stamendmentlost said:
    Reasonable Lib, If it had been Palin that said it, I’m sure you would be defending her as vigorously. I’m just surprised Obama didn’t list Mexico as one of our 57 states.

    Are you honestly trying to use a gaffe to demean intelligence? or do you really think a former US senator who was a professor of law and president of the harvard review has no idea how many states there are?

  • 1stamendmentlost

    What I’m saying Reasonable Lib, is you’re probably right that it was a gaffe. It’s the way the media covers gaffe’s made by conservatiies versus those made by liberals. Sorry, you can’t have it both ways. You know as well as I do that if Palin or Bush had made those 2 comments, it would be on the news for days. Admit it.

  • StandUp

    Andy Lamb said:
    or maybe a stand up gig

    watch it!!

  • notsofast

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Funny; my family was here before yours.

    Your family is in prison where it belongs.

  • VRWC Destruction Machine

    “If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen”

    I see arrogance and this sense of entitlement runs in the family.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kriselda-Jarnsaxa/507563256 Kriselda Jarnsaxa

    Legal immigrants should have the right to seek citizenship, but the country is under no obligation to grant it unless they comply with our laws and meet all of the requirements for citizenship – no matter who your family is.

    That said, I’m certainly not going to hold Obama’s aunt’s comments against him. It seems like they’re not very close, for one thing, and for another, I know that I”m NOTHING like any of my aunts, so I’m not going to assume someone else is just because it might be convenient for bashing him.

  • More Liberty

    Facebook User said:
    I know this is a bit off-topic, but I have to post it since we all know Mediaite wouldn’t dare cover it:

    Obama: “Mexicans” Were Here “Long Before America Was Even An Idea”

    “Long before America was even an idea, this land of plenty was home to many peoples. The British and French, the Dutch and Spanish, to Mexicans, to countless Indian tribes. We all shared the same land,” President Obama told the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

    Mexico declared its independence on September 16, 1810. It was recognized on September 27, 1821.

    The United States of America declared its independence in 1776.

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/21/obama_mexicans_were_here_long_before_america_was_even_an_idea.html

    I gotta think that if Palin said it, it would be front line news for days!

    Dude you got banned. I forget how much Colby like to ban people that disagree with him.

  • http://none pyrope

    Another criminal alien on the dole from the US taxpayers.

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