An uncomfortable case has emerged for Barack Obama. In the last days leading up to the election, this couldn’t have come at a worse time. Barack Obama’s aunt in an illegal immigrant. Nobody yet knows how this came to light, but the republicans will have a field day, knowing how important immigration is to the majority of Americans who will vote on Tuesday.

Zeituni Onyango is reported by AP as ‘Obama’s long lost half aunt’ was denied an asylum request in 2004, but stayed in the US regardless. The Obama campaign has in the past refused to comment on any of his half-siblings in the world, but has confirmed that Onyango is Obama’s father’s sister.

It has further emerged that Onyango has donated $260 to her nephew’s presidential campaign, but in small increments under $200 so by law they do not show up on the Federal Election Commission report. John McCain has during his campaign disclosed donations of all amounts, criticizing Obama for not doing the same thing and claiming that such a process might lead to illegal contributions. Such as Onyango’s?

This comes on top of McCain’s help from the popular Californian governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has joined the Republican campaign trail, telling audiences how he had to leave Europe as the socialism there ruined all chances of his success. Now he is warning voters against ‘Obama socialism’.