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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: donjuan_demarco who wrote (8839)7/19/2000 8:47:28 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 9127
 
This is the news item from his previous attempt. Does it seem odd to anyone but me that he was able to slip away from that brutal police state so soon after his last attempt? Guess they don't have as many cops as Rambi's town to keep an eye on folks.

Immigration Service in Fresh Cuba Controversy
By Frances Kerry

MIAMI (Reuters) - Seven weeks after Elian Gonzalez was snatched from his Miami relatives, the U.S. immigration service has come under fire again from Cuban exiles, this time for sending a Cuban baseball player back to the communist island.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) repatriated baseball player Andy Morales this week along with 41 other would-be migrants who were picked up at sea heading for the United States.

In previous years, a string of top Cuban baseball players who defected were allowed to settle in the United States and build careers, among them New York Yankees star pitcher Orlando ''Duque'' Hernandez.

But in the case of Morales, who plays for the Cuban national team, the INS indicated he had no grounds for asylum. He was treated just like any of the hundreds of Cubans caught every year trying to come illegally to the United States by raft or boat.

His family and some Cuban exiles worried that Morales was going to suffer for having tried to leave the island.

``I think it's fair to say his baseball days are over in Cuba,'' said Mariela Ferretti, a spokeswoman for the hardline Cuban American National Foundation. ``Here's an individual who is going to be deprived of his God-given talent for political reasons.''

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