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By DEVIN DWYER, ABC News

A U.S. immigration court has granted asylum toPresident Obama's Kenyan aunt, Zeituni Onyango, who was ordered deported from the U.S. in 2004 but stayed and appealed for the right to live here.

Onyango, 57, the half-sister of Obama's late father, made a personal appeal before a judge at a closed hearing in February, but details of the case she made remains unclear. "The asylum process is confidential and she wants to keep it that way," her attorney Scott Bratton told the Associated Press today. "She doesn't want people to feel sorry for her."