Onyango Obama, the president’s uncle, is asking immigration officials to allow him to remain in the US, citing the nearly fifty years that he has lived here. Although seemingly destined as a young man to be a key player in the unfolding story of his native Kenya, the elder Obama’s dreams foundered at an early age and he drifted into the pool of illegal immigrants living at the margins of American life. Now, thanks to his world-famous surname, Obama faces the possibility of an abrupt return to the country he left over a half a century ago.

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JLErwin3

01/08/2012 09:42 AM

I suspect the Wampanoag feels the same way about you.

stillinmass

01/08/2012 11:07 AM

So, not only is Uncle Omar in this country illegaly, he's a deadbeat who doens't pay his taxes or his rent. Who's paying for all of the lawyers who are represnting him on the DUI and immigration cases? It doesn't seem likely that Uncle Omar can afford them on his part time liquor store clerk pay. Than again, the same immigration lawyers represented Auntie Z and she's only getting by sponging off of taxpayers. Both of them should be deported yesterday.