First, how many "illegal aliens" do you know who had such a FAST turnaround time (without a full hearing) once they got ashore?
No immigration office is located "on the shore". Illegal.
Forget his Mom died trying to get him here, his "father" was not her husband either when she had Elian, or when she left Cuba?
An illegal alien's parentage or lack thereof is of no concern to the law or to me.
Must have been one hell of a threat to national security to require a SWAT team wannabes from INS to snatch a screaming seven year old from his American blood relatives.
The reasoning matters not other than a good example of what illegals should expect.
If you imagine klinton had any clue about the entire incident then I pity you.
He did not have the ability to control such things, nor was he interested.
You just favor illegal Elian because he was cute and he was a
good example of klinton's mismanagement of his staff.
Multiply him by ten thousand, jam them into your community and get back to me.
Stop putting refugees from Communism in the same category with illegal Mexicans. Cubans have a large social support network, so little Elian wouldn't have been a drain on the system as you suspect.
Besides, if it weren't for Jackboot Janet's fascistic treatment of the Gonzalez family, we wouldn't have won Florida in 2000.
There are no "illegal alien" Cubans on US shores.
That's the law, you don't like it?
Tough.