Yeah, on the third try... As Michelle Malkin put it - "She got multiple bites at the immigration court apple, where it ain't over till the alien wins." And the reason she won in 2010 was because her lawyer argued that being the aunt of the POTUS would make her a target if she returned to Kenya. That's an argument she didn't have at her previous hearings. (Ya think the decision may have been influenced by her POTUS relationship? Naaahh...)
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again... That seems to be a winning strategy for everything from disability benefits to asylum...
Originally Posted by lustylad
No, because someone released her status for probably political reasons. The timing is telling.
"A judge who granted asylum to President Barack Obama's African aunt ruled she deserved to stay in the United States because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organization,
making her a potential target for persecution in her native Kenya.
U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro blasted the leak by the unnamed official in his 29-page ruling granting asylum to Zeituni Onyango in May. His written decision was released this week through the Freedom of Information Act and first was reported by The Boston Globe.
Shapiro found that
a federal government official disclosed Onyango's immigration status and her relationship to Obama to The Associated Press three days before the November 2008 election in which Obama was elected as the first black president."
Not saying that what she did is right, it just doesn't really mean anything just like Willie Horton's story doesn't prove liberals love murderers or Reagan's welfare queen tells us anything about poor people or welfare. It is a non-story. Obama's absent father's half sister tells us nothing about Obama and is merely another pathetic Malkin smear, and only a marginally interesting anecdote.
I'm far more concerned about half of our DoD budget going to cost overruns on weapons systems rather than training troops, serving veterans or rebuilding our infrastructure and creating jobs.