In short, these are people outside the perimeter of operation who were roughed up, smacked around, tear-gassed, or otherwise harmed by jackbooted thugs (who, otherwise, inside the perimeter of operation were legally authorized agents of the law).
Some of the INS folks are going to end up in and out of court for years and years over this (no matter who wins the case), and they will, at some point, be identified, and when that happens they will be of no practical use for INS or it's successors.
When that happens (in the federal government), the history of it is that the employee will be treated like cr*p and left twisting slowly in the wind. For many of them their lives and those of their friends and relatives will be at risk.
It's a doggone shame none of the officers in on the Elian raid had been properly informed of their real long term risks for participating in this particular project.
I know the term jackbooted thug is overused on FR. Nonetheless, I can't think of a more apt illustration of the term than those federal agents who kidnapped little Elian Gonzalez. Those federal agents are/were hoodlums; cowards operating under color of authority (and maks) accomplishing an act that is so clearly morally wrong that any of them should have bowed out rather than follow orders. They should be exposed so that this travesty of law enforcement excess, so symptomatic of the Clinton administration, will be a warning to future federal agents willing to rough up law abiding citizens just because they can.
It's only a claim, it's not a fact.