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And look at the take by the left with Elian Gonzalez!
Wow! They loved it.
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Wow! They loved it.
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The media are bombarding us with pictures of Liam in a bunny-ear hat, providing minute-by-minute updates on his glorious return to Minneapolis, and holding nonstop interviews with the principal and teachers at Liam’s school and, for extra cuteness, his fellow 5-year-old classmates.
That got me thinking. Remember the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Alan Diaz for the AP, showing an INS agent (the precursor to ICE) pointing a 9-mm MP-5 submachine gun directly at a terrified little boy, Elian Gonzalez, who was hiding in a closet at the home of his Miami relatives? (Incidentally, to this day, the agent’s name remains unknown.)
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Unlike Liam, Elian was in our country legally — as that rarest of things, a legitimate asylum seeker. His mother, along with 11 others, had fled Cuba on a boat to the U.S., the boat sank and all aboard drowned, except 5-year-old Elian who, days later, was found clinging to an inner-tube by Miami fishermen.
Under immigration law at the time, Elian was completely legal because he was a Cuban who had reached dry land before being intercepted by law enforcement. According to the law, not fairytale dreams of the Cato Institute, that made him eligible to remain in the U.S. and apply for residency.
(As a sidenote, in deference to the left’s invented legal requirement for deportation — which is found nowhere in our actual written laws — Elian, so far as we know, hadn’t committed any crimes.)
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I know what you’re thinking. The New York Times must have been outraged by the photo of a federal immigration agent pointing a submachine gun at an utterly petrified little boy, his finger on the trigger. I couldn’t remember, so I checked. Weirdly, they had exactly the opposite reaction.
The Times’ Thomas Friedman:
“Yup, I gotta confess, that now-famous picture of a U.S. marshal in Miami pointing an automatic weapon toward Donato Dalrymple and ordering him in the name of the U.S. government to turn over Elian Gonzalez warmed my heart. They should put that picture up in every visa line in every U.S. consulate around the world, with a caption that reads: ‘America is a country where the rule of law rules. This picture illustrates what happens to those who defy the rule of law and how far our government and people will go to preserve it.’‘’
In another column, Friedman expressed disgust at the Democratic mayor of Miami for refusing to allow local law enforcement to assist federal agents in seizing Elian. This, he said, proved that the mayor’s “allegiance” was “not to the laws of this land.” (I hope that Tom never hears how Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey hasn’t allowed local law enforcement to help immigration agents in Minneapolis. HE WILL BE SO MAD.)
For his part, the Times’ Frank Rich sneered that Elian was “the latest pawn in our culture’s increasingly pornographic exploitation of children … the new JonBenet Ramsey, a child the camera loves who can be bought, sold, dramatized and ogled for ghoulish fun and profit.”
We’re just going to have to trust the Times that it isn’t “pornographic exploitation of children” for the media — led by the Times — to promote a video of little kids at Liam’s pre-school reading their letters to ICE (not at all encouraged by their teachers, you hear me!?!) while holding up adorably childish drawings, mentioning the bunny-ear hat, and telling federal law enforcement, “this kind of makes me sad.”
No, no, no. That’s not “pornographic exploitation.” Pornographic exploitation is Cuban exiles trying to keep their 5-year-old relative out of Fidel Castro’s clutches.
Regarding the legal dimensions of the case, the late Anthony Lewis, Times opinion columnist and president of the Ho Chi Min Admiration Society, laid down the law in no uncertain terms: “Longstanding statutes give the Immigration and Naturalization Service custody of any alien who, like Elian, arrives at this country’s borders without entry documents.”
The law’s the law! No tickee, no entry.
...
The media are bombarding us with pictures of Liam in a bunny-ear hat, providing minute-by-minute updates on his glorious return to Minneapolis, and holding nonstop interviews with the principal and teachers at Liam’s school and, for extra cuteness, his fellow 5-year-old classmates.
That got me thinking. Remember the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Alan Diaz for the AP, showing an INS agent (the precursor to ICE) pointing a 9-mm MP-5 submachine gun directly at a terrified little boy, Elian Gonzalez, who was hiding in a closet at the home of his Miami relatives? (Incidentally, to this day, the agent’s name remains unknown.)
...
Unlike Liam, Elian was in our country legally — as that rarest of things, a legitimate asylum seeker. His mother, along with 11 others, had fled Cuba on a boat to the U.S., the boat sank and all aboard drowned, except 5-year-old Elian who, days later, was found clinging to an inner-tube by Miami fishermen.
Under immigration law at the time, Elian was completely legal because he was a Cuban who had reached dry land before being intercepted by law enforcement. According to the law, not fairytale dreams of the Cato Institute, that made him eligible to remain in the U.S. and apply for residency.
(As a sidenote, in deference to the left’s invented legal requirement for deportation — which is found nowhere in our actual written laws — Elian, so far as we know, hadn’t committed any crimes.)
...
I know what you’re thinking. The New York Times must have been outraged by the photo of a federal immigration agent pointing a submachine gun at an utterly petrified little boy, his finger on the trigger. I couldn’t remember, so I checked. Weirdly, they had exactly the opposite reaction.
The Times’ Thomas Friedman:
“Yup, I gotta confess, that now-famous picture of a U.S. marshal in Miami pointing an automatic weapon toward Donato Dalrymple and ordering him in the name of the U.S. government to turn over Elian Gonzalez warmed my heart. They should put that picture up in every visa line in every U.S. consulate around the world, with a caption that reads: ‘America is a country where the rule of law rules. This picture illustrates what happens to those who defy the rule of law and how far our government and people will go to preserve it.’‘’
In another column, Friedman expressed disgust at the Democratic mayor of Miami for refusing to allow local law enforcement to assist federal agents in seizing Elian. This, he said, proved that the mayor’s “allegiance” was “not to the laws of this land.” (I hope that Tom never hears how Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey hasn’t allowed local law enforcement to help immigration agents in Minneapolis. HE WILL BE SO MAD.)
For his part, the Times’ Frank Rich sneered that Elian was “the latest pawn in our culture’s increasingly pornographic exploitation of children … the new JonBenet Ramsey, a child the camera loves who can be bought, sold, dramatized and ogled for ghoulish fun and profit.”
We’re just going to have to trust the Times that it isn’t “pornographic exploitation of children” for the media — led by the Times — to promote a video of little kids at Liam’s pre-school reading their letters to ICE (not at all encouraged by their teachers, you hear me!?!) while holding up adorably childish drawings, mentioning the bunny-ear hat, and telling federal law enforcement, “this kind of makes me sad.”
No, no, no. That’s not “pornographic exploitation.” Pornographic exploitation is Cuban exiles trying to keep their 5-year-old relative out of Fidel Castro’s clutches.
Regarding the legal dimensions of the case, the late Anthony Lewis, Times opinion columnist and president of the Ho Chi Min Admiration Society, laid down the law in no uncertain terms: “Longstanding statutes give the Immigration and Naturalization Service custody of any alien who, like Elian, arrives at this country’s borders without entry documents.”
The law’s the law! No tickee, no entry.
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