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This piece of garbage has been here for what, 45 years already? He was
required to leave in 1970. As if he’ll ever be deported.
President Obama’s uncle has won a new deportation hearing in Boston
immigration court, more than a year after a drunken-driving arrest in
Framingham revealed that he had violated a longstanding order to return to
Kenya.
Last week, the Board of Immigration Appeals granted Onyango Obama
’s request to reopen his immigration case based in part on his
contention that his prior lawyer was ineffective, according to a
government official with direct knowledge of the case. Obama’s new lawyers
have also argued that the 68-year-old Obama has lived in the United States
for nearly half a century and deserves a chance to make his case.
Brian P. Hale — spokesman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
which is prosecuting the deportation — confirmed that the board has
reopened the case but declined to elaborate.
The board’s decision raised eyebrows among immigration lawyers
who say it is difficult to persuade the immigration courts to
reconsider a case that involves an arrest and a flagrant violation of
a deportation order, last issued in 1992.
Framingham police arrested Obama for drunken driving in August 2011, and
he later admitted in court that prosecutors had sufficient facts to
bring the charge against him. But the drunken driving charge will be
dismissed as long as he complies with terms of his sentence, including a
year of probation that ends in March.
“With an outstanding order and a legally fuzzy plea, it’s pretty
unusual for the board to reopen” an immigration case, said Crystal Williams
, executive director of the Washington-based American Immigration Lawyers
Association. “It’s not unheard of, but it’s pretty unusual.”
Scott Bratton, one of Obama’s lawyers at the Margaret Wong law
firm in Cleveland, said Monday night: “We are obviously extremely pleased
with the board’s decision. This will allow him to pursue his application
for permanent resident status.”
Wonderful. | l******t
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