With her deportation hearing still six months away, the controversial Kenyan aunt of President Obama has quietly resurfaced in public housing in South Boston, the Herald has learned.
“Beggars can’t be choosers,” Obama’s “Auntie Zeituni” Onyango, 57, told the Herald yesterday with a mischievous smile, wearing a string of pearls and a sleeveless forest-green sheath she said her nephew bought her years before he became leader of the free world.
“I’d like to live in a castle and have a limousine,” she said, “but I don’t. My wealth is my health.”
Zeituni Polly Onyango, the half-sister of Obama’s late father Barack Obama Sr., moved into a discreet apartment complex this past month while she waits to fight a Feb. 4, 2010, removal proceeding brought against her by the Department of Homeland Security in U.S. Immigration Court in Boston.
Onyango, a computer programmer, was ordered to leave the country in 2004 after her request for political asylum from the violence in Africa was turned down. Instead, she stayed illegally and was revealed to be living in government-subsidized housing on Flaherty Way in Southie last October by The Times of London during the final stretch of Obama’s run for the White House.
Photo by Arthur Pollock
BIDING HER TIME: President Obama’s Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Polly Onyango, relaxes at her South Boston public housing apartment in a dress she said her nephew bought for her. Onyango faces a deportation hearing in February.
“For everyone who's ever been counted out, but refused to be knocked out, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up, this one is for you.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton
She lives in the Projects and Obama lives in a million dollor home and is now living rent free in the White House. Obama doesn't give a damn about his family.
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