Some made it and then were send back at gunpoint.
I wouldn’t characterize one sad incident it as some.
In the end, the Attorney General Janet Reno ruled Gonzalez should be returned to his father. When his Miami relatives defied the order, federal agents raided Elians uncles home in Little Havana and seized the boy from a closet at gunpoint
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/12/07/elian-gonzalez-turns-18-in-cuba/