National Briefing | Northeast: Massachusetts: Obama’s Aunt Can Stay to Make Asylum Case

President Barack Obama’s aunt will remain in the United States until at least next year as she awaits a chance to make her case before an immigration judge in her bid for asylum from her native Kenya. At a hearing in Boston, a judge set the case of Zeituni Onyango, for Feb. 4, 2010. Ms. Onyango, 56, first applied for asylum in 2002, but was rejected and ordered deported in 2004. She did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston. Her lawyer said Ms. Onyango first applied for asylum because of violence in Kenya but did not reveal what grounds she had cited in her renewed bid. (link)