Kenyan Professor Aggrey Mzenga Wanyama Given 90 Days to Leave the US after 25-Year Stay
A Kenyan professor, Aggrey Mzenga Wanyama has been issued with a 90-day ultimatum to leave the United States after his appeal for asylum was denied.
Wanyama will be deported to Kenya should he fail to leave the US by July 14th.
The scholar, who has been working as an English professor at Augsburg University in Minnesota, was on Thursday ordered by American immigration authorities to pack and leave after his application for asylum was denied.
CBS TV reports that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities on Thursday informed the Kenyan-born scholar that he had three months to exit the country, where he has lived in the last 25 years.
Wanyama, who moved to the US on a student visa in 1992 and attained a PhD, will be the latest victim of President Trump's tough Immigration policy. He had earlier launched an appeal for political asylum, but was dismissed by court.
Top officials at Augsburg University and members of the immigrants' community in the US have been protesting attempts to deport Wanyama to his motherland.
“This is about the whole immigrant community and not just about being Kenyan. We are talking about a man who has contributed very widely in this society. He is a professor. He mentored me. He’ is a father figure to many of us,” Renson Anjere, a fellow Kenyan living in US, told CBS TV.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is also against his deportation and has been in the forefront fighting for the lecturer to remain in the US.
“He is not just a resident, and he is not just a community member, he is a member of our family and the City of Minneapolis. He not going anywhere,” Frey told CBS TV.
Wanyama is a relative of Devolution Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa.
Comments (18)
Head home professor. It may turn out for the better.
25 years, and you have remained illegal? We reap what we sow.
The school had applied for him a work permit. So he has been working legally.
Work permit or not, wapi makaratasi? That is what matters.
Work permit is makaratasi! Amuka
Fundi, work permit siyo makaratasi. Makaratasi ni green card. Hata Wewe amuka.
H1B is only good for 6 years
Mr professor just pack yr things n head here home sweet home,u will love it n prepare for a big shock,some pple u left with nothing wako mbele sana n some ofcourse wako na mashinda!.I hope u invested a little bit in a house or a plot juu ziko expensive saana but Kograts ulisoma n that encourages me that job ya lecture utapata so life for u should b ok!Most Diaspora huko majuu whether u have papers or not always know SHIT can happen anytime any moment.
@Mkenya this guy is not an average minded fella, he is a brilliant guy, so amejisort. He doesn't need our cheap unsolicited pieces of advice. Some people wan't to stay a little bit longer here ndo watoto wamalize high school etc, not because they are concerned of making it in Kenya.
Hehehehe I don’t think we give cheap advices @RV continent Wr all here to give advice here n there so tuliza mboli!Kama amenjipanga to me at that age I won’t fight,Just pack n leave.In most cases those who fight have nothing home!Personally if I had hio masomo yake n I have invested heavily like RV is saying I won’t beg for the visa,not me!!! I wish him the best but the best is for him to come home n build this beautiful countries of us?
@ Mkenya Halisi. You are missing the point here. That comment suggests that he (professor) could be relactant to go back home because his children are still in school. Not because of lack of investment.
@Nyina, spot on! Educate Mkenya Halisi.
This @Mkenya Halisi is so useless. Hauna vita za kusema? You are so monotonous. You comment the same shit every day. Oh sijui kaploti, kashamba, mara kakuku..., ahgggg so annoying.
What do you expect from a bitter deportee who voluntarily “gave up His America Passport” to go back to the land of Gikuyu and Mumbi.
Applying for political asylum has many pitfalls, all the judge had to ask him is if current Kenyan leadership was after him and if the answer was “No” them the judge had to deport him, the law is the law since there is no statute of limitation on being an illegal alien unless there was a blanket amnesty.
Bullcrap Kwani kenya Hakuna mashule??This r all excuses ati kids r still in school!He can return with them n continue with their schoolings huko kenya!Mine started schooling in USA n when I decided to come back home I found a good school for them n they r doing very good in school beta than how they were doing in USA.So Guys he shouldn’t use kids schooling as an excuse jamaa hataki kutoka usa bana.Remember I lived there many years n I know all the excuses pple give!Profesa Prepare to return home my bratha maisha hapa poa.
Mkenya Halisi, as much as I am a proponent of diasporans having a plan B in Kenya, I have noticed a few who have returned to USA. Some can either not make it or they lacked to plan so they opt to come back to the states. It's simply not for everyone.
@All, Mkenya "HASILI" is so good, he once had both the Green card and U.S. passport at the same time🤣🤣🤣😂😂.He gave back the passport and kept the Green card 🤗🤗🤗😂😂🤣🤣! Freakin liar!