More RE Obama's Aunti
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http://tinyurl.com/5t9gm2 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.