A Boston immigration judge has set a Dec. 3 hearing to determine if President Obama’s uncle, Onyango Obama, should be deported to his native Kenya 50 years after he first arrived in the United States.
Immigration Judge Leonard I. Shapiro set the date at a short preliminary hearing Wednesday. Afterward, Obama’s lawyer, Scott Bratton, said he will ask the judge to grant Obama legal residency, in part because he has lived here for so many years.
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Detain, arrest and deport with 48 hours. No more BS with endless hearings. Violate a prior order to self deport, $50,000.00 fine and immediate deportation.
Is that your passport photo?
Wow, you must really hate the United States of America.
Forgive me, but we have been pushing this guy around because who is a partially related to. It is time that we cut him free and give him formally residence in the US. He lives in my town and has been no issues for so long.
The faster we get true immigration reform, the better it will be for all.
Its time we cut him free and send him back to Africa....
Detain and DEPORT all illegals..... Stinky and Auntie Z included!
Why even have any immigration laws? Continually ignoring the court's request to leave the country shouldn't be grounds for being able to stay legally. He might be a decent guy but he broke our immigration laws.
Millions of immigrants have come to this country and have gone through the process of becoming a US citizen. Why those who choose not to go through that process have some grounds for having the same privilege of being a US citizen escapes me.
December does seem like a long time. But it's kind of typical. The immigration system has two faults: First, it's incredibly slow. That goes for the lawful immigration process, as well as for the legal mechanisms for dealing with folks with problems. Second, in most cases it makes a travesty of due process. Maybe because imprisoning people is profitable? People wind up waiting forever in jail for proceedings that make a travesty of the Constitution. (And yes, the Bill of Rights talks about "persons" not citizens; its protections apply to everyone). No court-appointed lawyer because undocumented presence is "just a civil matter," but you wind up with penalties that will affect you the rest of your life.
I'm in favor of due process. I've heard far too many stories of citizens and legal residents getting detained and deported. I'd say err on the side of process.
“If you don’t leave then, you’ll be ordered to be deported,” Shapiro warned the woman, “and you don’t want to have that happen.”
Why is that? It doesn't seem like there's any consequences to ignoring an immigration court.
He should leave and take his famous nephew with him.
One has to wonder why the Boston Glob. . . reputedly New England's most influential representative of the once respectable print press . . . would run a picture of a goofily grinning lawyer with a story about an long-overstayed illegal alien who happens to be related to Barry the O, the winner of the last national election. Where is a photo of the Framingham booze dispenser? AFter all, the story is about Onyango Obama and how he continues to live in the U.S. illegally.