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The uncle of President Barack Obama has been arrested in Massachusetts on suspicion of drunk driving-- and being an undocumented immigrant.
Here’s Boston’s WCVB.

“Obama’s work and driving records are clean, but it’s his immigration status that may prove the most irritating ot him and his half-nephew in the White House. (FLASH) After his arrest, police learned Obama had previously been ordered deported back to Kenya. He doesn’t own the house in Framingham, and he’s had a valid driver’s license and Social Security number since 1992.”


Oyango is the second Obama family member involved in immigration drama.
Half-aunt Zeituni faced deportation last year, but was ultimately allowed to stay.



The Australian notes-- the whereabouts of Uncle Onyango -- also called Uncle Omar -- has been something of a mystery-- and the President himself even wrote about it.


“...the arrest ends a mystery over the fate of a relative that the US President wrote in his memoir had moved to America from Kenya in the 1960s, although the circumstances of his discovery may now prove to be an embarrassment for the White House.”



But despite the fact that his nephew is the most powerful man in the world, a columnist for the Boston Herald says-- while it’s interesting that Oyango was hiding out in a normal neighborhood-- illegal is illegal.


"To think, this humble Framingham (Frame-ing-ham) household is just one degree of separation from the White House. It looked exactly like a little slice of the American Dream.... except for Onyango, it is illegal.”



And it didn’t take long for the issue-- to get political.
Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin has more to add on the state of the American Dream.


“More nonsense and pabulum from America’s open-borders know-nothings. They’ve turned the American Dream on its head. Entry into this country is no longer treated as a privilege, but an irrevocable right for every last griping [Aunt] Zeituni and reckless [Uncle] Omar.”



And one CNN analyst suggests the incident will fire up the a quote- “irritating issue” for the president-- again.


DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: “I think it’ll have a little ripple in a community people known as the birthers. It’s gonna once again bring up this issue-- some people think-- ‘Obama’s not like us. He’s not one of us. He’s not quite American enough.’”



The White House has offered no comment on the arrest.

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