Another deportation fugitive in the Obama family
Oh, Uncle Omar.
We’ll get to more of him in a moment.
Over the past decade, I’ve reported on America’s bottomless deportation abyss. After the 9/11 attacks, it finally dawned on federal homeland security officials that maybe it wasn’t such a smart policy to allow 400,000 illegal aliens who had been ordered deported to remain on the loose. These absconders who entered the country illegally, evaded judicial deportation orders, and absconded from justice were beneficiaries of a chaotic system clogged by conflicting statutes, incomprehensible administrative regulations, bureaucratic and judicial fiefdoms, selective enforcement, and a feeding frenzy of obstructionist immigration lawyers.
It is a climate which continues to favor illegal aliens’ rights over citizens’ safety.
I’ve reminded you repeatedly about these deportation truths as clueless politicians on both sides of the aisle blabber about “comprehensive immigration reform”/mass amnesty. In July, I pointed you to a Center for Immigration Studies study that updated and underscored many of the deportation fundamentals we’ve stressed over the years:
* A large percentage of aliens flee from removal proceedings – perhaps as many as 59 percent of all those released to await hearings. On a cost basis from the alien’s perspective, this makes sense. If you are in proceedings and have little chance of relief, why not treat the bond money (if it’s even required) as the cost of having been caught, and then flee, hoping to stay under the radar for as long as possible, perhaps until the next amnesty?
* Though fashionable in the Obama administration, the exercise of “prosecutorial discretion” is problematic for ICE field officers. If the alien that they decline to remove goes on to commit a heinous act, they could be subject to lawsuits from victims and will be held accountable by their own agency (even if agency leadership encourages them to use the tool).
* Even in today’s technology-driven world, charging an alien with immigration violations is a paperwork-intensive, cumbersome process that requires agents to fill out nearly 20 different forms each time.
* ICE officers are supposed to consider two key factors in determining whether to detain or release an alien in proceedings – if the alien is a flight risk and if he is a risk to the community. The latter factor obviously is given serious consideration, but it is equally obvious from the large number of absconders that officers don’t give the same weight to the likelihood of flight, especially considering the scarcity of funded detention space.
* The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides for several types of due process for aliens, depending on their circumstances of arrival and stay. The law does not require that all removals be ordered by an immigration judge.
* The option of Voluntary Return, where the alien requests to be returned home in lieu of formal removal proceedings, is not really “voluntary,” but is beneficial to the alien because it carries fewer consequences if the alien returns illegally. It also has become subject to overuse or misuse in recent years as a tool to increase the volume of removals, at the expense of more formal methods of removal that have more deterrent value.
* Immigration law provides for seven ways to remove an alien, which are explained in the report. Four of these options are relatively efficient, but used less frequently. If ICE chose to expand their use, the workload of the immigration court could be reduced and the immigration enforcement system would be less dysfunctional.
* The total number of apprehensions of illegal aliens by immigration enforcement agencies is less than half of what it was five years ago. For instance, the drop in apprehensions by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is often explained by improvements in border security; however, this rationale is suspect, as has been pointed out by the Rand Corp. in a study of border metrics. But ICE apprehensions also have dropped steeply, although there has been only a modest drop in the size of the illegal population inside the United States.
When the White House began issuing its deportation waivers last week, I reminded you again about the endless appeals process and immigration litigation lottery played by deportable aliens and their open-borders lawyers. And remember: Capitol Hill compounds the problem with a raft of special private relief bills that protect illegal alien criminals.
This chaos creates a friendly atmosphere in which those who plot to destroy the American dream can hide, work, and flourish. As we approach the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks that awoke snoozing feds to the nexus between systemic lax immigration enforcement and compromised homeland security, the paparazzi president has nothing to say about the deportation abyss. We’ll get photo ops and platitudes about never forgetting. The open-borders lobby will get a continuing windfall of get-out-of-deportation passes.
In November 2008, Barack Obama’s unemployed illegal alien aunt who had been living in public housing for years received special dispensation from the Bush administration despite evading deportation orders for years. Despite failing to win an asylum bid and despite ignoring a judicial determination that she return home, Zeituni Onyango won another bid in the immigration court system. In May 2010, the unemployed illegal alien deportation fugitive won her case and remains in the country today — free to moan and whine about how badly America has treated her while living on the taxpayers’ dime.
And then came Uncle Omar. The brother of Auntie Zeituni and half-brother of President Obama’s father, “Omar” Obama Onyango was arrested for drunk driving last week (h/t to Michael Graham) and is being detained on an immigration detainer. He did have a job, unlike his sister. It was, alas, at a liquor store. The Boston Herald reports today that the uncle (whom Obama referred to in his best-selling “Dreams of My Father” as “Uncle Omar”) “had a valid Social Security number for at least 19 years, despite being an illegal immigrant ordered to be deported back to Kenya.”
The Herald further adds:
Mike Rogers, a spokesman for Cleveland immigration attorney Margaret Wong, who is representing Onyango, said he “wouldn’t know how” Onyango obtained a Social Security number. Wong is the same lawyer who represented the president’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, in her fight to win asylum last year. Reached at her apartment in a South Boston public housing complex yesterday, Zeituni Onyango said of her brother’s arrest: “Why don’t you go to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., and ask your president? Not me.” She then hung up on a reporter.
The bust came just days after another illegal immigrant was charged with running down and killing a 23-year-old man in Milford.
Asked about the issue yesterday, Gov. Deval Patrick said: “You know my stance: Illegal is illegal. We need comprehensive immigration reform.”
More nonsense and pabulum from America’s open-borders know-nothings. They’ve turned the American Dream on its head. Entry into this country is no longer treated as a privilege, but an irrevocable right for every last griping Zeituni and reckless Omar.
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Doug Powers cracks: “If the president was serious about rounding up illegals he’d host a family reunion and have ICE throw a net over the South Lawn.”
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They are all parasites!
And by increasing their voter base dramatically by awarding citizenship to grateful illegals and making it known how that gratitude should be shown in November 2012.
Well Obama’s brother Samson is having trouble traveling
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7995544.stm
but his 52 year old brother Malik seems to be enjoying his new marriage to his teen bride
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obamas-half-brother-in-kenya-says-he-married-teen/
When you have an empty mansion in Chicago and you let working people pick up the tab for your relatives, you should never, ever, ever talk about sharing sacrifice.
The Obama clan makes the Kennedy clan high brow, accomplished and distinguished.
Hey, yesterday I heard Bob Beckel tell us all that it was OK for Uncle Omar to contact the White House for help when he was arrested. He basically said it’s to be expected that when someone gets in trouble they should contact their relative(s) in the White House, if they have one, to help you get out of it. That’s Liberal justice for you. I think he should go back to drinking.
we-heh-hell then, we should turn liberal logic on its ear:
if Africa is the ‘cradle of civilization’ and all the leftie evolutionists think our ancestors came from the Rift Valley in Africa, wouldn’t that make the prez ‘family’ for all of us? Whoopee!
All of us? Part of the same federal family??
Well then sing along!!
We are family
I got
all my sistersmy federal family with meWe are family
Get up everybody and sing
On August 30th, 2011 at 11:21 am, FilAmWIguy said:
I believe that my son is ineligible for the presidency because my husband is still an English citizen. My son is a dual citizen (not recognized here, but it is in the UK) and can hold both US and UK passports. I don’t have a big problem with it.
None of the people you mentioned are eligible to be president. I am betting that if any of the Republicans try, the dems will whip out all of the exhaustive research done by conservatives and make it an issue, regardless of the fact that Obama has gotten away with it.
I disagree, I think the Dems, the Repubs, and the media, especially the Fox News talking heads, would all be so happy that the Constitution that was ignored for Obama was being “validated” as having been officially changed by the inclusion of Rubio and/or Jindal, thus removing any fear they have of being charged with the biggest fraud/charade in history, that they would say…nothing.
Man, thats one ugly dude. I can see a resemblance to Obama though.
Did Obama know his relatives were here illegally and he helped harbor the fugitives?
So Beckel thinks that if you have a relative in the White House, you should use them to help you get away with breaking the law?
So he would also support using your power, prestige, and family ties to:
get out of the Army draft
get a good paying job in government
get into the college of your choice
avoid paying taxes on your yacht
get your daughter hired as a high paid consultant in a hedge fund without any experience
redirect federal money to your favorite bailout agency in return for campaign contributions
stupidly sell weapons to the Mexican drug cartels
sell the Illinois Senate seat abandoned by Obama
Nothing wrong with that. Use it or lose it. Corruption is ok by Beckel. Got it.
I contend the 2nd biggest fraud in US history. The ratification of the 16th amendment was the 1st.
O-Care is the 3rd in the trinity.
In Bill Ayers book Dreams from My Father it states that when Obama visited his fathers family in Kenya in 1987 or 88 that Uncle Omar had gone to Boston “25 years ago” and never returned. That would have been around 1962 or 63 when Omar was 19 years old. Who would Omar have known in Boston in 1963? Hey! Wasn’t Obama Sr. at Harvard in 1963? While he was there was he harboring a fugitive illegal alien? Where are all of the investigative reporters? Why did I have to put this together myself?
Investigative reporting has died as far as investigating Obama is concerned. All of the media, including Fox, has zero interest in knowing who the heck Barry Soetoro really is. Even Conservatives who otherwise find the time to be critical of Obama’s “policies” are afraid to do the investigation which would undo the damage already done by this regime and save America from a horrible death. Instead they talk and talk and talk while ignoring the elephant in the room and ridiculing those who at least will admit there just might be a problem with Barry.
A really weird and depressing situation we are in…………….
When MA Gov Duval Patrick was asked if illegal immigration policies killed a victim hit by a drunk illegal (http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1362594&srvc=news&position=4) he responded that no, a drunk driver killed Denice. And he declared that MA had laws against that, and they would throw the book at the drunk illegal. OK, Duval, we have another drunk illegal. Lets see you throw the book at him! Or does he get treated different because he knows someone?!?!
Uncle Omar: Allo? Allo?
White House Switchboard: Who is this?
Uncle Omar: Uncle Omar..president’s uncle.
White House Switchboard: Yeah, sure.
Uncle Omar: Yes…Uncle Omar…I’m arrested…they say I drunk…please to go get my nephew?
White House Switchboard: Uh…relative of the president? Uh..we are not able to take your call at this time. We will not be able to take this call until we figure out a way to disavow any relationship the president may or may not have with you.
Thank you for calling the White House. Goodbye.
Now I’m just an average guy who happen to get his MBA, albeit not a paid for Harvard MBA like Obama, but I like to think I’m not as stupid as I might look to some people. Even with my marginal intellect, I wouldn’t have a clue how to illegally get a SSN without proving citizenship. So how does this moron get his own? We all know that the President is using a fake SSN from Connecticut, but his handlers took care of that looooong ago. But this fine example of a human being has the ability to get one of his own? Please. I’m just wondering how many years after Obama fades from memory are we going to find out that he, and all of his family members are NOT US citizens, and he was never qualified for the office.
Next November will decide the fate of my residency. It’s time to leave the country if Obama buys another term. Australia has always been a favorite destination of mine. My blood pressure can’t deal with the crap going on all around.