Mail.comBOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s aunt Zeituni Onyango, who was denied asylum in the United States but stayed illegally for years, died Tuesday at age 61.
Onyango, whose immigration status was reported by The Associated Press days before Obama’s election in 2008, had been treated in recent months for cancer and respiratory problems, Cleveland attorney Margaret Wong said. She died in a Boston rehabilitation center, said Wong, who represented her in her immigration case.
Onyango, a half-sister of Obama’s late father, moved from Kenya to the U.S. in 2000 and was denied asylum by an immigration judge in 2004. She remained in the country illegally, living in Boston public housing.
She finally was granted asylum in 2010 by a judge who said she could be in danger if she returned to Kenya because of her relationship with Obama. Onyango was born in Kenya in May 1952 under a mango tree and was delivered by a midwife, Wong said. She raised a family in Kenya and worked in the computer department of Kenya Breweries, she said.
“She was an awesome, funny, shrewd, smart lady born at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Wong said. “If she was only born in America or born in more Western open society instead of being bogged down by tribes, lineage and being a woman in Kenya, she could have been anything she wanted to be.”
Wong said Onyango had become ill in January and died early Tuesday morning in her sleep. The White House, which had no immediate reaction to Onyango’s death on Tuesday, had said previously that Obama did not intervene in her immigration case.
Obama, in his memoir “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” affectionately referred to Onyango as Auntie Zeituni and described meeting her during his 1988 trip to Kenya. She helped care for his half-brothers and sister while living with his father, Barack Obama Sr., in Kenya.
So So what Is She Gonna Get A Special Funeral Now !!!! Who the f##k is she? big F`n deal, she was a law breaking criminal and that is said in the damned article wasn`t it untill she was granted asylum – isnt that what the article said???, so she was a criminal.
Just why do they not put the good street people on a pedistal tike they did her in this damn article. She is a illegal and doesn`t deserve anything more than anyone else that has nothing damnit AND THAT IS WHAT I THINK – SHE IS A LAW BREAKER F her. The Law screwed many many good friends of mine – and they were born and lived her and fought in the military for our good country – and nobody gave a rip about them good people so what the F is it with this Illegal aunt to obama?? F??k Her – not that I would want to but I bet that so of her native country boy would like to that are from Kenya !!!!!!!!!
Good,she was a parasite with rich relatives?living in this country on taxpayers dime,now,for his other relative in Boston convicted of dui while a illegal,some sort of uncle in framingham mass.,may he to have health issues that are resolved quickly so as not to cost the legal citizens more taxpayer monies.
Oh man, even Barry’s relatives are here illegally. Unfrigginbelievable!! My tax dollars and social security went to that bitch? That pisses me off even more. When are we gonna hang the Communist bastards who are manipulating this country? 😡
Illegality seems to run in the family, Obomber being an illegal president.
Yep and the bitch probably gets free round the world trips on Air Force one when Michelle needs to go shopping with her mother.
Hang ’em for HIGH TREASON!