Obama’s Auntie Zeituni (or Michael Jackson) granted political asylum

To no one’s surprise, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt Zeituni Onyango has been granted political asylum. But to almost everyone’s surprise, she now looks and dresses exactly like Michael Jackson.

The New York Times reports the story of her new immigration status, but completely ignores the Michael Jackson transformation:

An immigration judge has granted asylum to President Obama’s aunt and will allow her to stay in the United States, her lawyers said Monday. She could become a citizen in about six years.

Zeituni Onyango, 57, who lives in public housing in Boston, is the half-sister of Mr. Obama’s late father and is from Kenya. She moved to the United States in 2000 on a valid visa and has been seeking asylum since 2002.

Judge Leonard Shapiro, an immigration judge in Boston, reached his decision in the long-running case on Friday. Her lawyers announced the decision Monday at their offices in Cleveland.

Ms. Onyango applied for asylum in 2002 and was rejected in 2004 and ordered to leave the country. She continued to fight the case and in April 2009, Judge Leonard Shapiro in Boston stayed her case until February, when hearings were held in the case.

Ms. Onyango had lived in relative anonymity in Boston until just before the 2008 presidential election, when The Times of London found her in what it described as “rundown public housing.”

Coincidentally, Zeituni’s nephew Barack had also been living in relative anonymity until just before the 2008 presidential election. He is also now living in public housing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but the conditions are considerably less run-down.

Source: New York Times