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Democrats deported a frightened, hysterical little boy back to Castro’s Cuba because he was an “illegal alien.”
If you had legal custody of your son after a divorce and your ex-wife took him illegally to another country but died in route, what would you want the other countries officials to do?
"Country Roads, take me home to the place I belong" is what I would want? That is just me of course, adrift at sea.
So, you don't believe in Father's Rights.
Not when the Mom gets eaten by sharks and risks death to bring him to America. And the Father lives under the tyranny of Govt keeping Cuba stuck in the 1960s for 40 years..
....mmmmm....unless the father abused the child, or the child's life is in danger in Cuba that is not enough reason to refuse to return him to his father.
Probably safer in Cuba from the looks of the fear in his eyes at the assault squad that "rescued" him... Screw his mom or the precedent of keeping refugees from Cuba that make it to land.
Is that a reasonable justification for refusing to give him to his father? Doesn't his father have rights here?
In terms of how this OP discussion is written. What is with some folks that ENCOURAGE 10s of thousands of UNESCORTED MINORS to Flee to the US on death trains thru Mexico???. And then HOUSE them in gymnasiums for years and DON'T return them to their parents. And want to relocate them all over the US with already ILLEGAL families? But are all about keeping REFUGEE kids with their parent in Cuba?
Kind of apples and oranges - if the parents were demanding their return while relatives in America were demanding to keep them - you'd have a comparison. This is less a refugee rights case than it is a family court case.
Anyone would have fear in their eyes in such a situation where distance relatives are filling his mind with fear of the boogie man....and then run and hide with him in a closet, yelling and screaming.So, you don't believe in Father's Rights.
Not when the Mom gets eaten by sharks and risks death to bring him to America. And the Father lives under the tyranny of Govt keeping Cuba stuck in the 1960s for 40 years..
....mmmmm....unless the father abused the child, or the child's life is in danger in Cuba that is not enough reason to refuse to return him to his father.
Probably safer in Cuba from the looks of the fear in his eyes at the assault squad that "rescued" him... Screw his mom or the precedent of keeping refugees from Cuba that make it to land.
What I recall of the case (and what's in this timeline A Chronology Of The Elian Gonzalez Saga | Saving Elian | FRONTLINE | PBS) is that it was resolved through the courts and through an appeals process.
What I recall of the case (and what's in this timeline A Chronology Of The Elian Gonzalez Saga | Saving Elian | FRONTLINE | PBS) is that it was resolved through the courts and through an appeals process.
Did you READ the timeline? Janet Reno held a Family Court session by HERSELF and short-circuited the legal appeals.
After meeting with Juan Miguel Gonzalez, Attorney General Janet Reno announces that U.S. officials will move to transfer Elian to his father.
April 12
2000 Reno meets with Elian's relatives in Miami about the process for transferring the boy to his father, but there's no agreement from the relatives. Over the next several days negotiations continue between the family, Reno and representatives on both sides.
April 19
2000 The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals grants a request by Elian's Miami relatives to block his return to Cuba.
April 22
2000 In a pre-dawn raid, armed U.S. federal agents seize Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives. Elian is reunited with his father a few hours later. But it will take two months before Eilan and his father would go back to Cuba--two months of court procedures and demonstrations and counter-demonstrations in Miami.
Seems to have been a chronic problem of that lady. Turning trivial court cases into armed military assaults..
So, you don't believe in Father's Rights.
And in the end, it was the right thing to do. Elian Gonzalez himself refers to that heroic effort to reunite him with father as being "rescued."Seems to have been a chronic problem of that lady. Turning trivial court cases into armed military assaults..
Possibly, but I'm not going to judge it on this particular incident since Wiki noted:
INS also stated in the days after the raid that they had identified as many as two dozen persons who were "prepared to thwart any government operation", some of whom had concealed weapons while others had criminal records.[21][22]