The Washington Post reports that, at a hearing today, an immigration judge ruled that President Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango, can remain in the United States until an immigration hearing in February when the court will consider new evidence, apparently in a motion to reopen the proceedings, in support for her claim for asylum and relief from removal to Kenya. According to the Post, “[u]sing a cane and wearing a rusty brown wig, Zeituni Onyango said, `Praise God,’ after she stepped out of a closed hearing before the same immigration judge who twice has ordered her deported.” The immigration judge scheduled a hearing for February, 2010.
Onyango, the half-sister of Obama’s late father, originally plied for asylum in 2002.
