BOSTON: A US judge who granted asylum to President Barack Obama’s African aunt has ruled she deserved to stay in America.
This is because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organisation, the judge found.
US immigration judge Leonard Shapiro granted asylum to Zeituni Onyango in May. His written decision was released this week through the Freedom of Information Act.
The judge found a federal government official disclosed Ms Onyango’s immigration status and her relationship to Obama to The Associated Press three days before the 2008 presidential election.
He said the disclosure could make her a target if she were sent back to her native Kenya.
Ms Onyango, 58, lives in public housing in Boston. She’s the half-sister of Mr Obama’s late father.
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