More RE Obama's Aunti

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Obama's aunt the focus of visa scandal

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Monday, 3 November 2008

The scandal over Barack Obama's "Auntie Zeituni" sparked a Department
of Homeland Security investigation yesterday, after it emerged that
the Democratic candidate's close relative was living illegally in the
United States.


Officials are investigating whether its privacy policy was breached
when details regarding the immigration status of Zeituni Onyango, one
of many half-sisters of Obama's father, Barack Snr, were leaked to a
news organisation.

The Associated Press reported late on Friday that the woman, who
lives in council housing in Boston and has made several donations to
Obama's campaign, had been instructed to leave America four years ago
by a judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya.
News of the affair prompted the US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agency to refer the affair to Homeland Security, in an
attempt to establish how confidential details regarding Ms Onyango's
case were made public.