I don't agree with the manner in which the child was taken from the Miami relative's home...but I do agree that something had to be done! Janet Reno and other officials had negotiated with this family to no end. The Great Uncle told Reno and the government that he would not turn Elian over and would not take him to the airport to fly to DC...he was quoted in the paper as saying that the government would have to take him by force...and they did. The Miami family disregarded everything that they were lawfully told to do. They were calling all the shots! Personally I was tired of watching that mess on the news!
I live in Florida and on any given day boats containing Haitian immigrants are turned away and sent home. If Elian was a little Haitian boy and Haitians and African Americans were surrounding a house making a human chain and protesting in the streets...I truly believe the police and or the feds would have broke that up before it had a chance to get started!
I hope that Elian can live a happy life with his father and family. I am not sure that he will have the most comfortable life in Cuba but I am sure it will be better now that this case has been all over the news.
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