IIRC, he reached US soil and wa eligible to stay here because of the ‘dry foot’ exception for Cubans. It was his father, as Elian’s sole surviving parent, being sent by Fidel that created the problem and Reno caved in to that.
14 posted on 06/15/2008 12:53:33 PM PDT by EDINVA
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