The White house's trailer trash relatives
President Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, at a closed
immigration hearing last year. Onyango, half-sister of Obama's
late father, moved to the United States in 2000 and she was
ordered deported in 2004. Source: AP
The arrest ends a mystery over the fate of a relative that the US
President wrote in his memoir had moved to America from Kenya in
the 1960s, although the circumstances of his discovery may now
prove to be an embarrassment for the White House.
Official records say Onyango Obama, 67, was picked up outside the
Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham, Massachusetts, at 7.10pm on
August 24. Police say he nearly crashed his Mitsubishi 4x4 into a
patrol car, and then insisted that the officer should have given
way to him. A report filed with the Framingham District Court said
that a breathalyser at the police station registered his blood
alcohol at 0.14mg/100ml of blood, above the state limit of 0.08mg.
Barack Obama's uncle has been arrested and held as illegal immigrant
* James Bone and Catherine Philp
* From: The Times
* August 29, 2011 10:00AM
Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango
President Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, at a closed immigration
hearing last year. Onyango, half-sister of Obama's late father, moved to the
United States in 2000 and she was ordered deported in 2004. Source: AP
BARACK Obama's long-lost "Uncle Omar" has been arrested for alleged
drink-driving outside Boston and detained as an illegal immigrant, The Times
can reveal.
The arrest ends a mystery over the fate of a relative that the US President
wrote in his memoir had moved to America from Kenya in the 1960s, although
the circumstances of his discovery may now prove to be an embarrassment for
the White House.
Official records say Onyango Obama, 67, was picked up outside the Chicken
Bone Saloon in Framingham, Massachusetts, at 7.10pm on August 24. Police say
he nearly crashed his Mitsubishi 4x4 into a patrol car, and then insisted
that the officer should have given way to him. A report filed with the
Framingham District Court said that a breathalyser at the police station
registered his blood alcohol at 0.14mg/100ml of blood, above the state limit
of 0.08mg.
According to a local newspaper, Mr Obama was charged with driving under the
influence and driving to endanger, as well as failing to use a turn signal.
He was detained as an illegal immigrant because the US Bureau of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement has an outstanding warrant for him because he was
previously ordered to be deported to Kenya.
The Times has established from his birthdate that Mr Obama is the Uncle Omar
mentioned in President Obama's best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father. In
the 1995 book, President Obama writes of "the uncle who had left for America
25 years ago and had never come back".
In 2008, The Times mounted a search for Uncle Omar. Instead of finding him,
we discovered his sister, President Obama's Auntie Zeituni, who was living
as an illegal immigrant on a Boston housing estate. Uncle Omar and Auntie
Zeituni are the children of President Obama's grandfather Hussein Onyango
Obama, by his third wife Sarah, the woman President Obama calls "Granny",
because she raised his father, Barack Sr, who was Hussein Obama's son by
Hussein's second wife, Akumu.
The 2008 investigation unearthed public records naming an O. Onyango Obama,
born on June 3, 1944, living at a house in the Boston suburbs, where he was
known as Obama Onyango. Framingham police records list the man arrested last
week as Onyango Obama, with the same birth date, June 3, 1944.
According to local reports, Officer Val Krishtal and another driver had to
slam on their brakes to avoid hitting Mr Obama's car, which rolled through a
stop sign and took a quick left turn. Mr Obama allegedly told the officer he
had right of way and said he doubted the officer was forced to brake hard as
he did not hear his brakes squeal.
Mr Obama pleaded not guilty at his remand hearing, but was held in custody
because of the immigration warrant. He now faces a legal battle. His sister
Zeituni eventually won the right to live in America despite an earlier
deportation order. Margaret Wong, the Cleveland lawyer who successfully
represented Zeituni, confirmed through a representative last night that she
has also been retained to defend Mr Obama.
"Before he went to America, we all knew him as Omar. But he dropped that
bit, changing it to Obama Onyango, because he said he preferred his African
name," said Nelson Ochieng, a cousin in the Kenyan city of Kisumu.
Mr Obama's landlady in Boston went to court to evict him in 2000 for
non-payment of his dollars 500-a-month rent. He was also a partner in a
convenience store that was set up in 1992, and was attacked in a robbery at
the shop in 1994 by two men armed with a sawn-off rifle.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obamas-uncle-has-been-arre
sted-and-held-as-illegal-immigrant/story-e6frg6so-1226124269032
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