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[kandrathe]

Those rat bastards, reuniting a child with his father as per his father's wishes and the law!

You can frame it that way if you like. The laws were in a gray area, and they chose which law they wanted to enforce in that case.

The other side of that coin would be that he was also a refugee, whose mother and stepfather took him on a raft to escape Cuba for a better life in the US. Rather than honor the parents desires, which they risked and gave their lives for, we made him into a political spectacle, and a hero for Castro. And, it's not like he didn't have a group of loving relatives in the US who would have raised him, and cared for him. His great uncle Lazaro Gonzalez had pursued and been granted adoptive custody. Elian was conceived after the divorce and Juan, his biological father, had never been his parental father. Lazaro had legally filed a petition for Asylum, and the justice department intervened (being politically motivated) to prevent Elian from ever getting a hearing. Sending him back was a political act, not one of compassion.

In the end, the attention he's gotten in Cuba will end up giving him a decent life there too, however, I'd speculate it's nothing comparable to what he'd have had here.

But, this is deflection from the bigger point. How did Elian's father, a poor Cuban, get such a prominent and powerful Democrat as his lawyer? Isn't it odd that Eric Holder gets propelled into the Democratic elite by using a SWAT team to kick down the door to get custody of a 6-yr old staying with relatives? It's just a reminder that it's our tolerance of the tactics of the Janet Reno's that will allow the rise of the jack booted thugs in our governments slow descent into Fascist dictatorship.