Obama's aunt living illegally in US ..

Zeituni Onyango, 56,Senators Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been living in Boston in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago and was instructed to leave the United States by a US immigration judge who denied her asylum request, Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of US immigration law , that means such cases are handled outside the criminal court system.a person familiar with the matter said.This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorised to discuss Senators Barack Obama’s Aunt’s case because the case is just case sensitive. Barack Obama said that he did not know his aunt Zeituni Onyango from Kenya was living in the US illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcement official.The information they made available is known to officials in the Federal Government, but the it could not be established whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release. Bush, meanwhile, is urging Americans to remember that the US election sets an example for budding democracies around the world.Many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the United States. and immigration from Mexico continues to dominate the unauthorized population growth.

Halloween!

Halloween did not become a holiday in the United States until the 19th century. The whole custom of Halloween was brought to America in the 1840's by the Irish immigrants.
In North America, Christian attitudes towards Halloween are quite diverse.but as the time passed by, after Christmas ,Halloween is now the United States' second most popular holiday for decorating, the sale of candy and costumes are also extremely common during the holiday .New York City hosts the United States' largest Halloween celebration, known as The Village Halloween Parade. Although The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.
The main event for children of modern Halloween in the United States and Canada is trick-or-treating, in which children disguise themselves in different and scary costumes and go door-to-door in their neighborhoods, ringing each & every doorbell and yelling "trick or treat!" to solicit a gift of candy ,money, breadcake, cheese, eggs, butter, nuts, apples, etc. The houses are frequently adorned with turnips carved into scary faces, lights or candles are sometimes placed inside the carvings to provide an eerie effect.
Games are often played in Halloween, such as bobbing for apples, where apples, peanuts and other nuts and fruit and some small coins are placed in a basin of water. The apples and nuts float, but the coins, which sink, are harder to catch. Everyone takes turns catching as many items possible using only their mouths.That is the whole concept of Halloween.