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09-09-2011, 12:53 PM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">President Obama's so-called 'Uncle Omar' was quietly released from jail yesterday, but the reason why, as well as his current whereabouts, are unknown.
Officials would not discuss details regarding the release of Onyango Obama, who was living in the U.S. illegally for decades before his drunken driving arrest last month.
After his August 24 arrest, he was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and held under a warrant for his deportation from 1992. He pleaded not guilty. ...
On Thursday, officials confirmed to the Boston Globe that Mr Obama was freed from the Plymouth County Jail, but the conditions of his release and his current location were not known. ...
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Centre for Immigration Studies, an organization that favours stiff limits on immigration, blasted the agency, saying it should be more transparent, especially in a case involving the president’s relative.
She told the Globe that the public deserves to be informed on the circumstances of Mr Obama’s release, since he violated a deportation order and is accused of drunken driving.
Suburban life: Obama Oyango was living in a nice house in Framingham, Boston
She contends that such material would be public information in a criminal court case.
Vaughan said: 'This whole nonsense about privacy is a policy. It's not the law. It’s a choice that [the immigration agency] is making. I think it's very cowardly on [the agency’s] part, to be honest.' ...
She added: 'Their behaviour shows that they don’t want to be accountable to anybody.'
Onyango Obama's Cleveland-based lawyer Scott Bratton has said his client would fight to stay in the U.S. ...
Last year, the president's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was granted asylum and allowed to stay in Boston after a long court battle with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who wanted to deport her.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz1XTzTCYTZ (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035572/Mystery-surrounding-President-Barack-Obamas-uncle-Onyango-Obama-leaves-Massachusetts-jail.html#ixzz1XTzTCYTZ) </div></div>
Officials would not discuss details regarding the release of Onyango Obama, who was living in the U.S. illegally for decades before his drunken driving arrest last month.
After his August 24 arrest, he was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and held under a warrant for his deportation from 1992. He pleaded not guilty. ...
On Thursday, officials confirmed to the Boston Globe that Mr Obama was freed from the Plymouth County Jail, but the conditions of his release and his current location were not known. ...
Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Centre for Immigration Studies, an organization that favours stiff limits on immigration, blasted the agency, saying it should be more transparent, especially in a case involving the president’s relative.
She told the Globe that the public deserves to be informed on the circumstances of Mr Obama’s release, since he violated a deportation order and is accused of drunken driving.
Suburban life: Obama Oyango was living in a nice house in Framingham, Boston
She contends that such material would be public information in a criminal court case.
Vaughan said: 'This whole nonsense about privacy is a policy. It's not the law. It’s a choice that [the immigration agency] is making. I think it's very cowardly on [the agency’s] part, to be honest.' ...
She added: 'Their behaviour shows that they don’t want to be accountable to anybody.'
Onyango Obama's Cleveland-based lawyer Scott Bratton has said his client would fight to stay in the U.S. ...
Last year, the president's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, was granted asylum and allowed to stay in Boston after a long court battle with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who wanted to deport her.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz1XTzTCYTZ (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035572/Mystery-surrounding-President-Barack-Obamas-uncle-Onyango-Obama-leaves-Massachusetts-jail.html#ixzz1XTzTCYTZ) </div></div>