Kenyan Next of Kin Denied Visas After Triple Murder in the US

[JCMach1]

I am currently in Nairobi and this has been all over the news... Some really disgraceful stuff from the State Department.

...The bodies of a woman and her children who were murdered in Minnesota were flown to Jersey City for burial yesterday, but their kin said today there will be no burial until family members in Kenya who were denied visas are allowed to attend the funerals.

"It is despicable, ridiculous, that the American Embassy in Nairobi has denied the visas," Peter Masonga told The Jersey Journal today at Watson Mortuary Service where the bodies of his sister, Bilha Omare, 32, and her two children lay in caskets nearby.
... Shem said the victims were to be buried Monday but that has been postponed indefinitely until visas are issued...

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/11/family_of_triple-murder_victim.html

[slackmaster]

1. Were they on the Bush administration's Sooper Seekrit Terra Watch List that so many of us love?

:nuke:

U.S. Department of State spokesman Andy Laine said today that "We are not able to comment on specific visa cases. Its the law."

Uh-huh.

[readmoreoften]

2. So secret that Obama hasn't corrected the problem?

At what point does Obama start getting some of the responsibility for this. Has hasn't even bothered to address this issue and Holder has weakened civil rights beyond what anyone in the Bush administration did. (See: Holder vs Humanitarian Law Project.)

Our civil rights are not fairing so well under anyone.