Busted On DUI, Another Alien Obama is Snagged in Immigration System

The immigration issue hit home again with President Obama when one of his African uncles was arrested on DUI charges in Massachusetts and detained by federal authorities.

Onyango Obama -- or "Uncle Omar," as the president fondly called him in his 1995 memoir -- was busted outside the Chicken Bone Saloon in Framingham last week when he nearly hit a patrol car after running a stop sign. Obama, who registered a 0.14 blood alcohol level (nearly twice the legal limit in Massachusetts), insisted that the officers should have yielded to him.

A search of the uncle's records found that he had been ordered deported from the United States, but had remained here illegally.

Uncle Omar, 67, is the brother of Zeituni Onyango, another illegal alien, who, after years of defying orders to leave the country, managed to find a judge who would grant her political asylum.

"The question now is whether, if convicted of a DUI offense, he will be deported under his nephews new policy of not deporting anyone except hardened criminals," writes Ira Mehlman, at ImmigrationReform.com.

"No one seems to know for sure if DUI convictions rise to the level of a deportable offense under the Obama administrative amnesty policy."

Mehlman reports that Uncle Omar has hired immigration attorney Margaret Wong who represented Aunt Zeituni in her successful effort to gain asylum.

Beyond the obvious Obama angle, Uncle Omar's case highlights the ability of illegal aliens to obtain Social Security cards and driver's licenses, finance home purchases and remain undetected in a country where law-abiding citizens are routinely groped by federal workers at airports.

E-Verify, anyone?