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

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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