Zeituni Onyango In Court Today

We’re semi-eagerly awaiting a decision out of Boston today, mostly because it is a story with no relevance beyond political spectacle, regarding the deportation of the President’s aunt. (Zeituni Onyango, who is a KENYAN, works as either a computer programmer or a public health advocate, or both, depending on what news outlet you are reading.) She was denied asylum in 2004; she is a member of the Luo minority in Kenya; by last year, as many as 600,000 people were “displaced” (that is, homeless) due to political and ethnic conflict. She has declined interviews. This retains my interest, I think, because it is one of those stories regarding which, the more you think about it, the less you are able to clearly summarize its news value.