Obama's aunt pleads for right to stay in US

President Barack Obama’s African aunt is going before an immigration judge today for a second time to argue she should be allowed to stay in the United States.

Kenya native Zeituni Onyango is scheduled to appear at the US Immigration Court in Boston.

Ms Onyango moved to the United States in 2000.

Her first asylum request was rejected and she was ordered to be deported in 2004.

But she did not leave the country and continued to live in public housing in Boston.

Her status as an illegal immigrant was revealed just days before Mr Obama was elected.

Mr Obama said he did not know his aunt was living in the country illegally.

A judge agreed to reopen the asylum case.