How the strange case of Obama's Uncle Omar complicates immigration reform - The Week
This familial embarrassment could have big policy implications
Obama has a passel of half-siblings, but his requisite nettlesome relative may turn out to be an uncle, Onyango (Omar) Obama.
In August 2011, Uncle Omar was pulled over in Framingham, Mass., for driving under the influence. His arrest revealed both several outstanding orders for his deportation and his relationship to the president. Shortly after the arrest, Uncle Omar reportedly told the police, "I think I will call the White House." In November 2011, just as the 2012 election was kicking into gear, the White House told The Boston Globe there was no record of Obama ever having met Uncle Omar.
On Tuesday, at a public immigration hearing, Omar Obama casually disclosed that not only had President Obama met him, but had lived with him for about three weeks in the 1980s. On Thursday, the White House issued a correction, confirming that the president stayed with Omar briefly when he moved to Cambridge to attend Harvard Law School. "After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law school they fell out of touch," said White House spokesman Eric Schultz. "The president has not seen him in 20 years, has not spoken with him in 10."
Later on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explained away the White House's changing story on Uncle Omar, saying nobody had bothered asking Obama about his uncle until this week: [that makes two chronic bad liars]
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