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01-30-2013, 04:41 PM
President Obama's uncle, Onyango Obama, will face deportation to his native Kenya at an immigration hearing scheduled for Dec. 3, 2013, the Boston Globe reported Wednesday.
Onyango Obama had been living in the United States illegally for some 21 years before being arrested in August 2011 after he nearly rammed his SUV into a police car. Obama entered into a plea agreement in March 2012 that acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of drunk driving.
A lawyer for "Uncle Omar" told the paper his client hopes that he will eventually be allowed to stay in the United States.
"Everybody wants to stay in America," said Scott Bratton. "Hopefully on Dec. 3, the case will be over.’"
The scheduling comes just one day after President Obama called for broad immigration reform, including a path to citizenship, for the country's more than 11 million illegal immigrants. At a rally in Las Vegas, the president said "the time has come for common-sense, comprehensive immigration reform."
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/280189-obamas-uncle-omar-to-face-deportation-hearing-by-end-of-year#ixzz2JV99tqvs
Onyango Obama had been living in the United States illegally for some 21 years before being arrested in August 2011 after he nearly rammed his SUV into a police car. Obama entered into a plea agreement in March 2012 that acknowledged that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of drunk driving.
A lawyer for "Uncle Omar" told the paper his client hopes that he will eventually be allowed to stay in the United States.
"Everybody wants to stay in America," said Scott Bratton. "Hopefully on Dec. 3, the case will be over.’"
The scheduling comes just one day after President Obama called for broad immigration reform, including a path to citizenship, for the country's more than 11 million illegal immigrants. At a rally in Las Vegas, the president said "the time has come for common-sense, comprehensive immigration reform."
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/280189-obamas-uncle-omar-to-face-deportation-hearing-by-end-of-year#ixzz2JV99tqvs