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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: greenspirit who wrote (8501)7/13/2000 11:19:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 9127
 
Is there any evidence that he actually was drugged? I was under the impression that this was unconfirmed.

Clinton and Reno feared the 11th circuit courts ruling. Further, they realized if the court did rule against them and for the asylum request

There just isn't any reason for that. If the court ruled against them all they have to do is appeal to a higher court, and sooner or later one of them would acknowledge the incontestable, apolitical, legal fact that a US court has no jurisdiction over the custody or disposition of an illegal alien.

I don't know how many times that has to be repeated.

And even if the court could have ordered the asylum petition to be heard, who would hear the petition? The INS, of course.

I think that what happened is that somebody looked at the direction the situation was taking, and said something like "we are going to have to do this sooner or later, let's do it now and finish it".


Politically this just couldn't happen.

Why not? What overwhelming political stake did Clinton and Reno have in the outcome? I don't see any.

So they spun and spun the stories painting the "Miami relatives" and "Miami Cuban Americans" as evil thugs.

I think the Miami leadership did that themselves. Their own words and actions did that very convincingly. Ironic: they finally got the spotlight, and they shot themselves in the foot with it.
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