{"id":2430,"date":"2013-02-06T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2015-07-30T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T20:02:35","slug":"onyango-obama-gets-to-stay-in-the-u-s-for-another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/02\/06\/onyango-obama-gets-to-stay-in-the-u-s-for-another-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Onyango Obama Gets to Stay in the U.S. for Another Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a federal immigration judge announced that Onyango Obama, uncle to President Obama, won\u2019t face another deportation hearing until December, giving him another year to reside in the United States illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Obama won an appeal for a new deportation hearing last December despite having been arrested for drunk driving several months prior. (<em>See <\/em>FAIR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/fair-legislative-update-december-10-2012?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=3559033&amp;ObjectID=6014863&amp;ObjectType=35#7\" target=\"_blank\">Legislative Update<\/a>, Dec. 10, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>In a surprising twist, Obama\u2019s attorneys revealed that they plan to fight for permanent resident status for Obama based on his \u201cgood moral character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I guess they mean aside from his intoxicated driving. And they must also plan to ignore the fact that he nearly rammed his car into a police cruiser. And let\u2019s just forget the sticky subject of his blatant disregard of a 20-year-old deportation order. Or the fact that he ever overstayed his visa to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, when you take all of those things out of the equation, Onyango sounds like a stand-up guy!<\/p>\n<p>Read more at the Boston Herald\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/news_opinion\/local_coverage\/2013\/01\/president_obamas_uncle_fights_permanent_residency\" target=\"_blank\">website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a federal immigration judge announced that Onyango Obama, uncle to President Obama, won\u2019t face another deportation hearing until December, giving him another year to reside in the United States illegally. Obama won an appeal for a new deportation hearing last December despite having been arrested for drunk driving several months prior. (See FAIR<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/02\/06\/onyango-obama-gets-to-stay-in-the-u-s-for-another-year\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,6,4,10,7],"tags":[166],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}