"BHA takes heat for housing Obama's aunt" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | November 4, 2008
Reports that Senator Barack Obama's aunt is an illegal immigrant living in Boston public housing sparked outrage yesterday at a time when nearly 20,000 people are on waiting lists for subsidized housing in the city.
That's because this AGENDA-PUSHING GLOBALIST GOVERNMENT doesn't work for YOU, American citizen! When are you going to wake up to that fact?
The news lit up talk radio, stirred debate on blogs, and led to a new call for government officials to do a better job screening for illegal immigrants. "This is a really lousy deal for Massachusetts taxpayers and for other people in Massachusetts who might be able to qualify for a public subsidy but can't get one," said Jessica Vaughan, senior policy analyst of the Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, though she is based in Franklin, Mass. "To be fair to legal residents and citizens, those people in need should be the priority. Public housing is a limited service."
Zeituni Onyango, the 56-year-old half-sister of Obama's late father whom Obama saw sporadically throughout the years, remained in federal public housing after an immigration judge ordered her deported four years ago, according to the Associated Press. Boston Housing Authority officials confirmed yesterday that the agency used federal funds to pay Onyango more than $1,500 last year when she worked as a resident health advocate to educate people in the community about asthma.
She was PAID by the FEDS with YOUR TAX DOLLARS, readers!!! I know it is NOT MUCH, but WHERE is YOUR $1,500 CHECK and GOVERNMENT JOB?!!
She worked from January to early July for $65 a week. Bill McGonagle, deputy director of the housing authority, said the agency obeyed federal law in housing and hiring Onyango. He said the Department of Homeland Security never informed the authority that Onyango was facing deportation.
Yeah, because THEY WERE HOLDING BACK to SPILL the STORY in the FINAL DAYS of the CAMPAIGN!! Duh!!!
Her case underscores the contradictory rules governing public housing in Massachusetts. Applicants for federal public housing - which make up 75 percent of Boston's housing developments - have since 1995 had to provide documents proving that they are here legally. Their information is verified with a federal database.
Onyango would have had to pass that test before she moved in 2003 into the federally funded Old Colony complex in South Boston.
WTF then?
She has since had back surgery and has trouble walking, McGonagle said, so this year she transferred to a more accessible apartment in the West Broadway complex, which is funded only by the state. State officials say a 1977 federal consent decree prohibits them from denying public housing to illegal immigrants. The decree stemmed from a class-action lawsuit in Waltham.
But the BANKS can TOSS YOU OUT of YOURS, 'murkn!
Advocates for immigrants expressed outrage that anonymous sources leaked Onyango's story to the media. Although it probably was intended to harm Obama on the eve of the presidential election, they said, publicizing his aunt's personal information could put her in danger.
"It's just so outrageous that any information about her would be revealed," said Joan Friedland, a lawyer and immigration policy director at the National Immigration Law Center in Washington.
Hey, OUR GOVERNMENT is SPYING on every damn FART POOT, so go blow, girl (Friedland is JEWISH, isn't it?)!!!
Eva Millona, the new executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, said it is unclear if Onyango is here illegally. "Even though an immigration judge makes a decision, the fear doesn't go away," she said. "There are other forms of relief the person can apply for."
These fucking people are incredible!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked its inspector general and office of professional responsibility to investigate the leak, said spokeswoman Kelly Nantel. It is the policy of the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees customs, to keep such cases confidential, she said. --more--"
Ha-ha! They are going to investigate what they leaked?
This will be better than the Plame case!
Of course, the Globe excuses illegals on the front page of the Metro section.
Hey, complain to FASCISTA SECURITY and CHERTOFF, buddy!!!!"
