Posted on 03/29/2002 11:36:56 AM PST by laureldrive
Why in the world do liberals love Castro so? Even as we speak, Jimmy Carter is busy making his pilgrimage to kiss the Great Man's toe. I've never understood it.
But getting back to Elian, I think the famous photo should be printed up and posted everywhere Jackboot Reno is likely to show up. Anybody know if she's coming to Gainesville any time soon?
Clinton's INS reversed their own written guidelines which state that State Family Courts determine who has custody of a child in situations such as Elian's.
The USSC ruled that the Executive branch could reverse its own written regulations on immigrant custody issues, which the INS had done when they seized Elian in the raid.
Juan Miguel was then appointed to be Elian's spokesman and he declined to have an immigration hearing.
One more thing to remember is that Juan Miguel was never out of the control of Castro's security men in the US. We have to trust the word of Reno and Castro that his wishes were being followed.
Actually and unfortunately, AnnaZ, the fact that we haven't seen Elian being photographed by Cuban television cameras is only because the American presstitutes have decided not to print them. I have read articles in the Spanish language "El Nuevo Herald" (Knight Ridder Miami newspaper) as recently as last month I think, about Elian being paraded around with Castro for some communist holiday. Many Miami newspapers and television stations monitor Cuban tv and they confirm that Castro has been exploiting Elian for his commie-political agenda all along. Another bit of sad information I read in the Miami Herald last week was that a federal judge threw out the case of INS whistleblower (was Ramirez his name?) who dared to tell the truth about INS hatred of Elian.
The effort that the media/RATs put into this all out bltz was a foreshadowing of the effort to steal the Election of 2000 in Florida.
Elian's Miami relatives stood up the full force of the Clinton machine and thereby put themselves in considerable danger.
Hard for me to understand how anyone on this forum can be snide about a family like that.
You mean obtain a bogus warrant? Stomp of at least three amendments to the constitution? "Arrest" people without reading them their rights, or allowing them access to an attorney?
Allow agents of a foreign (and hostile) regime to conduct communist indoctrination classes on US soil, on real state paid for with taxpayer money?
And you call yourself a conservative?
You get paid to enforce our laws?
No wonder we're in the shits.
Why Reno attempted to get a warrant is beyond me. INS officers do not need a warrant to enter a house and apprehend an illegal alien.
Stomp of at least three amendments to the constitution?
Illegal aliens are not protected under the Constitution.
"Arrest" people without reading them their rights,
Illegal aliens are detained not arrested and therefore they do not get Marandized.
, or allowing them access to an attorney?
As for legal counsel, I'm sure the Government provided the best the best (that was sarcasm by the way).
Allow agents of a foreign (and hostile) regime to conduct communist indoctrination classes on US soil, on real state paid for with taxpayer money?
Can't comment on that, I was not there.
And you call yourself a conservative?
Why yes I do.
You get paid to enforce our laws?
Right again.
No wonder we're in the shits.
If your in the shits, it not because of me.
On the point of Elian being an ilegal immigrant-- I'll defer to others familiar with immigration law, but my understandng is that Elian's status was undetermined at the time of his seizure by the INS.
I infer from he 11th Circuit Court's ruling that he was entitled to due process before he could be declared an illegal immigrant.
Congressman Billybob-- Any comments on the legal points raised by Marine Inspector?
Let's say a suspected bank robber was hiding out in someone's home. Are the police required to get a warrant to enter that home and arrest him? My understanding is that they are not required to do so.
Before entering the home, however, I think that they would be required to have a warrant to arrest the suspect, unless they were in active pursuit after the robbery.
In Elian's case, they were not there to arrest him. They were there to transfer him to the custody of his biological Cuban father until his immigration status could be settled in court.
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