A Kenyan-born lawyer Jeff Matemu plans to follow in the footsteps of former US President Barrack Obama by vying for the US House of Representatives, Congressional District 2, North Carolina.
The lawyer made a name as a leading immigration lawyer in the US by helping countless of illegal immigrants struggling either to regularise their status or ward-off deportation orders, more so following US President Donald Trump’s tough stance.
He became popular in the US legal circles after he took a leading role in a high-level Federal case at the US Court of Appeals for the 4thCircuit.
“I’ve sued Attorney-General Jeff Sessions about something that has been going for a long time with far-reaching implications on immigrants and we are now waiting for the judgment,” Matemu stated.
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The politician was born in Mombasa spent part of his childhood in the Kenyan coastal town and attended Nairobi School where he sat for his KCSE then later joined the University of Nairobi.
“After graduation from the University of Nairobi, I practised law in Kenya for a few years until I left to pursue my post-graduate studies in the US in 2003,” Matemu stated.
The lawyer maintained that he chose to run as a Libertarian to better serve the people of his congressional district by avoiding party labels that he noted controlled politicians’ decisions.
“Congress is hopelessly broken because of party affiliations between Democrats and Republicans," Matemu remarked.
"Nothing is being done under these circumstances and I want to go there to serve the people of North Carolina. I can only do that on a Libertarian Party ticket,” he added.
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Matemu stated that if elected to Congress, he will fight for the revitalisation of infrastructure and also fight for affordable college education and expansion of the earned income tax credit which subsidises wages for low-income earners, and for reforms in the criminal justice system.
