[Incorrigible]

We should ahve kept Elian and shipped Michael Moore to Cuba.

[Calculus_of_Consent]

I said at the time. "We should invite the entire family to the United States so they can enjoy our hospitality for a week or so before we Elian home." That way Castro would have no hostages.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Yesterday I spent some time with a family member who arrived here about six years ago. He was a "winner" in Cuba's visa lottery.

He was one of over six million who applied.

Cuba has about eleven million people.

[rageaholic]

"Family reunification," Meissner said, "has long been a cornerstone of both American immigration law and INS practice."

And family reunification at gunpoint has been a cornerstone of Janet Reno's administration. Meanwhile IN FLORIDA as Elian is hauled away at gunpoint by a SWAT team, Mohammad Atta and his Al Qaida buddies were taking flying lessons!!

The INS is a fiasco.

[Ken H]

Another crack in the dam of the Elian Gonzales story.

A little more truth comes out.

[xsmommy]

And that is far from the most infuriating revelation. According to Chardy, "Hand-scrawled notes at the bottom of the two-page memo said then-INS Commissioner Doris Meissner ordered the destruction of the memo one day after it was written when she learned of its existence. According to the notes, Meissner ordered that no more discussions related to Elian be committed to writing." Luckily for the cause of truth, someone at the INS had forwarded the e-mail out of the system by the time Meissner tried to sweep over her traces.

Word that Enron execs destroyed documents prompts a huge hue and cry of outrage, Doris Meissner orders INS docs destroyed and there is nary a raised eyebrow....

[bjs1779]

The INS--i.e. Meissner, reporting to Reno, reporting to President Clinton--rejected out of hand Elian's standing to apply for political asylum

I see, Reno and Clinton are the victims here, being mislead every step of the way by old Doris.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Jeff Jacoby's three part series on Cuba- "A walk in Havana" - "Keeping hope, conscience alive in Cuba" - "The US embargo and Cuba's future"--[Excerpt] And make no mistake: Doing business with Cuba means doing business with Castro. There is no private property in Cuba, no private enterprise, no private employers. Foreign investors must deal with the government. They cannot hire Cuban workers directly; a government agency chooses their workers for them. The investors pay Castro - in hard currency - for each worker; Castro in turn pays the workers a fraction of that amount - in all-but-worthless pesos. So long as Cuba's dictator maintains his stranglehold on every aspect of Cuban life, ending the embargo would be counterproductive. It would do nothing to end the far more restrictive embargo that Castro imposes on the Cuban nation. It would give him the propaganda victory and the US dollars he craves, but it would do little to bring liberty or hope to ordinary Cuban citizens. Every president since JFK has extended the Cuban embargo; to lift it in exchange for nothing - no free elections, no civil liberties - would be a betrayal of the very people we want to help. ''Tiende tu mano a Cuba,'' says Paya when I ask what he thinks of American policy, ''pero primero pide que le desaten las manos a los cubanos.'' Extend your hands to Cuba - but first unshackle ours.[End Excerpt]

Fidel Castro - Cuba

[Angelique]

You post great articles, and I so appreciate them, but this is a no brainer.

[Stallone]

Evil is the denial of love, light and life.

Evil is an acronym for:

E - every

V - villain

I - is

L - Liberal

The Miami Gonzales family are truly inspiring and heroic.

Anyone who would vote to elect Clinton or Reno is your enemy, the enemy of America.

[RamRoss]

Ah yes ---we are now free of the Castro/Clinton/Reno regime which pulled off one of the greatest abductions before millions of (brain-dead?) TV viewers. Isn't the Bush/Ashcroft/Arafat administration much better?

[dirtboy]

According to Sanchez-Roig, INS officials believed Elian's father was being monitored by the Cuban government when he made the angry calls to the United States demanding Elian's return. He also may have previously sought to immigrate to the United States.

The INS--i.e. Meissner, reporting to Reno, reporting to President Clinton--rejected out of hand Elian's standing to apply for political asylum (PA). But that was apparently not the advice Meissner received from Sanchez-Roig, who said that the U.S. government could "potentially accept the child's asylum's application and advise that there is no prohibition on age to child filing application. As such PA should proceed."

And that is far from the most infuriating revelation. According to Chardy, "Hand-scrawled notes at the bottom of the two-page memo said then-INS Commissioner Doris Meissner ordered the destruction of the memo one day after it was written when she learned of its existence. According to the notes, Meissner ordered that no more discussions related to Elian be committed to writing." Luckily for the cause of truth, someone at the INS had forwarded the e-mail out of the system by the time Meissner tried to sweep over her traces.

An enraged bump. Howlin, I've pinged you here because I remember we debated this issue. With all due respect to your position regarding parental rights, here is some evidence that Juan Miguel was acting under duress. Had both he and Elian been granted their day in court, we could have known the truth.

It is a sound, respectable debate about the rights of a child to seek asylum versus the wishes of the parents. But when the Clinton Administration got involved, the debate was bastardized.

[dirtboy]

But that was apparently not the advice Meissner received from Sanchez-Roig, who said that the U.S. government could "potentially accept the child's asylum's application and advise that there is no prohibition on age to child filing application. As such PA should proceed."

A position subsequently upheld by the 11th Circuit.

[Political Junkie Too]

I knew something was up when (among other things) Clinton sequested Gonzalez at Andrews Air Force Base and refused to allow Senator Bob Smith to enter.

Imagine that! A United States Senator is refused access to Andrews Air Force Base while Cuban "diplomats" were given free run of the place.

Imagine that! Cuban "diplomats" were given free run of the place where Air Force One and Marine One are hangared.

Talk about security risks!

-PJ

[TJFLSTRAT]

Well it could have been worse. Reno could have incinerated the boy, instead of mearly sending him back to Cuba.

[harpo11]

A Clinton/Reno Legacy

[Kaslin]

take a look at that *gly **tch