Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni is back in her taxpayer-funded apartment in Boston (Globe story). Massachusetts taxpayers have been paying her rent for nearly 10 years and must now also pay their share of a federal immigration judge’s salary for a hearing on April 1. Judges ordered Aunt Zeituni to leave the U.S. back in 2003 and then again in 2004. The conjecture is that Aunt Zeituni will claim that she is entitled to asylum because she would be imprisoned, tortured, or otherwise mistreated if she returned to Kenya to live legally. It seems like a tough claim to make when one’s nephew is the most powerful man in the world. Would the Kenyan government antagonize a guy with nuclear weapons at his command in order to oppress a “frail-looking woman in her late 50s who walks with a cane”?
Aunt Zeituni’s case raises the question of what we’re getting for our tax dollars in terms of immigration enforcement. For five years following her final order of deportation, Aunt Zeituni has lived under her own name in a government-owned apartment. If the Department of Homeland Security couldn’t escort her to Logan Airport and wish her bon voyage, why are we paying their thugs?
Don’t be silly PhilG, easy answers:
Who else would feel up women and confiscate dangerous things like water bottles when you board commercial airplanes?
http://boingboing.net/2008/08/26/tsa-declares-war-on.html
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/tsa_gangstaz.html
Or to give immunity, green-cards, and 6-or-7 figure settlements to Mexican Drug Smugglers while putting hard working Border Agents in jail?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/may/15/pardon-ramos-and-compean/
There was a time when I contacted the Border Patrol about someone in a border state that was in the process of committing bigamy to get a green card, after residing illegally in the USA for some time. They “took my information” – I faxed them all the information they would need to find this d-bag … and did exactly nothing.