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Florman said an unidentified member of the Cuban-American National Foundation locked the back door of the house while Elian was rushed to an inner room, which was also locked shut.
In addition, Florman said people outside the front door of the house "scuffled" with agents as they attempted to enter the house. She said they used a rope to try to block the agents.
Florman said "a couple" of the citizens who scuffled with agents received minor injuries, including scrapes and bruises.
Florman said word of the efforts to block the agents came from debriefings of the agents over the past two days.
Government files brief on asylum appeal
Meanwhile, in an 83-page motion filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, government lawyers said that same court was wrong when it suggested last week that Immigration and Naturalization Service guidelines might allow a child to apply for asylum on his own, based on language in the statute that states "[a]ny alien ... may apply for asylum."
The government said, "The question here is not whether Elian 'may apply,' but whether he 'has applied.'"
The case, the government attorneys said, is "not about whether Elian has spoken about asylum. It is about which of two adults will be allowed to speak about asylum for him: His father (Juan Miguel Gonzalez), with whom he has had a close relationship all his life until they were separated under traumatic circumstances last November; or a distant relative."
The government's motion was filed to oppose the appeal by Elian's Miami relatives asking the court to recognize three separate applications for asylum filed by Lazaro Gonzales, the boy's great uncle. One of the applications was signed in Elian's hand. The family is appealing a federal court's ruling not to recognize the applications.
In its ruling last week, in which the court ordered that Elian must stay in the United States throughout the appeals process, the court criticized the INS for not interviewing Elian before rejecting his application. The government said Monday it had not interviewed the boy because of his "tender years" and the "likelihood that the Miami relatives would have influenced Elian's testimony."
The government said for Elian to prove eligibility for asylum he would have to "prove that he suffered past persecution or will suffer future persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular group, or political opinion."
The government quoted the opinion of a Florida state court when it rejected Lazaro Gonzalez's custody petition and said it had "watched the struggle between a family fighting for love and freedom, and a father fighting for love and family." The government went on: "Wish as one might that Juan would fight for love, family, and freedom, that is a decision that he as a parent must make, and it must be respected."
A hearing on the asylum request is set for May 11 in Atlanta.
'Veiled threat' alleged
Also Monday, a senior Justice Department official said that Marisleysis Gonzalez, Elian's 21-year-old second-cousin, made a veiled threat two days before the INS raid that there were guns in the house.
"There are more than just cameras in the house," the official said the cousin told a Department of Justice employee two days before the house was raided. The remark was taken as a threat that the family had guns in the house to prevent the government from removing Elian, the official said.
"We were concerned there were guns," the official said. "We had no hard intelligence, but we had valid concerns that people in or around the house had guns." The remark, the official said, reinforced the government's "very serious concerns."
Marisleysis Gonzalez, center, and Delfin Gonzalez gather for a news conference outside Andrews Air Force Base on Monday
The official refused to identify the Department of Justice employee to whom the remark was made.
The Miami Herald reported Monday that at least one person at the house -- a Cuban American National Foundation security chief with a concealed weapons permit -- had frequently been seen with a handgun strapped to his ankle.
The newspaper identified him as Mario Blas Miranda, a former Miami police officer, now a licensed private investigator and president of a security company.
Blas Miranda denied he or members of his security team carried weapons around the Little Havana house. "I never carried weapons in there," he told Reuters. "I am a law-abiding citizen."
Elian's Miami relatives also deny there were any weapons in the home.
Hyde orders preliminary inquiry
Meanwhile, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Illinois, said Monday he is instructing his staff to begin a preliminary inquiry into the tactics employed in the raid.
Hyde said he is trying to determine whether to hold hearings on the matter.
"The inquiry will focus on whether the use of such force was necessary or appropriate," Hyde said in a written statement.
The judiciary chairman said he hopes Reno will cooperate by "making all necessary documents and personnel available to the committee."
Hyde said he intends to consult with the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, to conduct the inquiry in a bipartisan manner
Clinton administration officials on Monday defended their actions and said Elian's Miami relatives brought about the armed seizure.
President Clinton felt the raid was "the right thing to do and was the only alternative remaining," White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said. "All of this could have been avoided. None of this had to happen. This happened because the family did not respect the legal process here that dictated the father should be reunited with the young boy."
Attorney General Janet Reno said she had no regrets. "I tried my level best to make sure we avoided this situation, and if I bent over backward, so be it," she told NBC. "I'm satisfied with the result."
The armed federal agents broke into the home only after negotiations with the family, including Marisleysis Gonzalez, produced mixed signals, INS Commissioner Doris Meissner told CNN.
"She spoke on various sides of the issue," Meissner said. "She spoke about how deeply she cared for the child, how much she did not want there to be a forcible transfer, but she also spoke about how she would never part with him, about how the family would never allow the transfer to take place under the conditions that were required. There were many contradictory statements."
Reno said she has no regrets concerning Saturday's pre-dawn raid
Meissner said, "That told us we had to be prepared for anything."
Roger Bernstein, an attorney for Elian's U.S. relatives, blamed the collapsed negotiations on demands made by Reno and Gregory Craig, a U.S. lawyer who represents Elian's father.
"He (Gregory Craig) is ultimately responsible for that raid taking place, as is Janet Reno," Bernstein told CNN.
One of the Miami community leaders who was involved in those negotiations said he also was surprised by the raid, which took place while he was on the phone with Reno, his longtime friend.
"I have the utmost respect for the attorney general of the United States," said attorney Arron Podhurst. "She was my friend 30 years ago. She's my friend today, and I feel for her like she feels for me."
Podhurst added, "Now, I do not agree that we weren't close to a settlement. I believe everybody was acting in good faith. I believe the Miami Gonzalez family was acting in good faith. And I believe we had made substantial progress."
Reunion called 'a most beautiful moment'
The reunion of Elian with his father was "a most beautiful moment," according to a government doctor who witnessed the event and said both Juan Miguel Gonzalez and his son cried with joy.
The account of Elian's reaction came on Monday as he and his Cuban family remained in seclusion at Andrews Air Force Base.
At first, though, Elian was dazed and disoriented when he was scooped up by rifle-toting immigration officers wearing protective gear, said Dr. Gustavo Cadavid, a Spanish-speaking government psychiatrist who accompanied the boy on the flight Saturday from Miami to the Air Force base near Washington.
"Once we took off from Miami ... he started talking ... asking where he was going, where was his uncle, where was his cousin," Cadavid told CNN.
Later, as the flight proceeded, Elian napped, played with toys and spoke to his father by telephone, Cadavid said. After landing, as the plane taxied up to a group of waiting cars, Elian peered through an aircraft window, anxiously looking for his father, the doctor said.
When Elian finally spotted him, "you should have seen the transformation of his (Elian's) face," said Cadavid. The boy smiled "and started waving at his father."
Cadavid described Elian rushing to his father, and, "The father grabbed his son. Both started to cry. Very emotional."
Cadavid denied claims the boy was drugged to calm him down. "Absolutely not. There were no medications given," the doctor said. "As far as I know, nobody did that."
Additional allegations that photographs of Elian were doctored to show him smiling after the reunion are "absurd," Lockhart said.
Protesters walk down the nearly empty street at the Miami relatives' home in Little Havana
Family may go to Wye River retreat
Juan Gonzalez is now considering where to move while the family stays in the United States awaiting resolution of the appeals. One possibility is for the family to go from the air base to the equally private Wye River Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the site of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the past.
Meanwhile, Elian's father is turning away -- for now -- visitation requests from the Miami relatives, who traveled to Washington on Saturday just hours after the seizure.
Cadavid said Elian needs private time to grieve over the loss of his mother before the Miami relatives re-enter the picture.
Marisleysis and other relatives went to the Air Force base Monda but were turned away for the third consecutive day without being allowed to talk with Elian or his father.
The Miami relatives cared for Elian for five months following his rescue in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida last Thanksgiving. His mother was one of 11 people who drowned when the boat carrying them from Cuba sank off the coast of Florida.
Elian, clinging to an inner tube, was one of three survivors.
Correspondents Brian Cabell and Kate Snow, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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INS: Elian's Miami family tried to block agents
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents who helped retrieve Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives on Saturday report that people inside the house tried to prevent agents from entering the front door, according to a Department of Justice official.
The boy's Miami relatives tried to block agents, despite promises that they would not interfere if the INS came for Elian, said Justice spokeswoman Carole Florman.
According to Florman, agents reported that the front door of the house was opened for an Associated Press photographer just as the agents' minivans pulled up in front of the house. The door was then locked and a couch was placed against the door, she said. Florman said it took three attempts to ram through the door because the couch was in the way.
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White House defends Miami raid
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Key dates in custody battle over Elian Gonzalez
Florman said an unidentified member of the Cuban-American National Foundation locked the back door of the house while Elian was rushed to an inner room, which was also locked shut.
In addition, Florman said people outside the front door of the house "scuffled" with agents as they attempted to enter the house. She said they used a rope to try to block the agents.
Florman said "a couple" of the citizens who scuffled with agents received minor injuries, including scrapes and bruises.
Florman said word of the efforts to block the agents came from debriefings of the agents over the past two days.
Government files brief on asylum appeal
Meanwhile, in an 83-page motion filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, government lawyers said that same court was wrong when it suggested last week that Immigration and Naturalization Service guidelines might allow a child to apply for asylum on his own, based on language in the statute that states "[a]ny alien ... may apply for asylum."
The government said, "The question here is not whether Elian 'may apply,' but whether he 'has applied.'"
The case, the government attorneys said, is "not about whether Elian has spoken about asylum. It is about which of two adults will be allowed to speak about asylum for him: His father (Juan Miguel Gonzalez), with whom he has had a close relationship all his life until they were separated under traumatic circumstances last November; or a distant relative."
The government's motion was filed to oppose the appeal by Elian's Miami relatives asking the court to recognize three separate applications for asylum filed by Lazaro Gonzales, the boy's great uncle. One of the applications was signed in Elian's hand. The family is appealing a federal court's ruling not to recognize the applications.
In its ruling last week, in which the court ordered that Elian must stay in the United States throughout the appeals process, the court criticized the INS for not interviewing Elian before rejecting his application. The government said Monday it had not interviewed the boy because of his "tender years" and the "likelihood that the Miami relatives would have influenced Elian's testimony."
The government said for Elian to prove eligibility for asylum he would have to "prove that he suffered past persecution or will suffer future persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular group, or political opinion."
The government quoted the opinion of a Florida state court when it rejected Lazaro Gonzalez's custody petition and said it had "watched the struggle between a family fighting for love and freedom, and a father fighting for love and family." The government went on: "Wish as one might that Juan would fight for love, family, and freedom, that is a decision that he as a parent must make, and it must be respected."
A hearing on the asylum request is set for May 11 in Atlanta.
'Veiled threat' alleged
Also Monday, a senior Justice Department official said that Marisleysis Gonzalez, Elian's 21-year-old second-cousin, made a veiled threat two days before the INS raid that there were guns in the house.
"There are more than just cameras in the house," the official said the cousin told a Department of Justice employee two days before the house was raided. The remark was taken as a threat that the family had guns in the house to prevent the government from removing Elian, the official said.
"We were concerned there were guns," the official said. "We had no hard intelligence, but we had valid concerns that people in or around the house had guns." The remark, the official said, reinforced the government's "very serious concerns."
Marisleysis Gonzalez, center, and Delfin Gonzalez gather for a news conference outside Andrews Air Force Base on Monday
The official refused to identify the Department of Justice employee to whom the remark was made.
The Miami Herald reported Monday that at least one person at the house -- a Cuban American National Foundation security chief with a concealed weapons permit -- had frequently been seen with a handgun strapped to his ankle.
The newspaper identified him as Mario Blas Miranda, a former Miami police officer, now a licensed private investigator and president of a security company.
Blas Miranda denied he or members of his security team carried weapons around the Little Havana house. "I never carried weapons in there," he told Reuters. "I am a law-abiding citizen."
Elian's Miami relatives also deny there were any weapons in the home.
Hyde orders preliminary inquiry
Meanwhile, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Illinois, said Monday he is instructing his staff to begin a preliminary inquiry into the tactics employed in the raid.
Hyde said he is trying to determine whether to hold hearings on the matter.
"The inquiry will focus on whether the use of such force was necessary or appropriate," Hyde said in a written statement.
The judiciary chairman said he hopes Reno will cooperate by "making all necessary documents and personnel available to the committee."
Hyde said he intends to consult with the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, to conduct the inquiry in a bipartisan manner
Clinton administration officials on Monday defended their actions and said Elian's Miami relatives brought about the armed seizure.
President Clinton felt the raid was "the right thing to do and was the only alternative remaining," White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said. "All of this could have been avoided. None of this had to happen. This happened because the family did not respect the legal process here that dictated the father should be reunited with the young boy."
Attorney General Janet Reno said she had no regrets. "I tried my level best to make sure we avoided this situation, and if I bent over backward, so be it," she told NBC. "I'm satisfied with the result."
The armed federal agents broke into the home only after negotiations with the family, including Marisleysis Gonzalez, produced mixed signals, INS Commissioner Doris Meissner told CNN.
"She spoke on various sides of the issue," Meissner said. "She spoke about how deeply she cared for the child, how much she did not want there to be a forcible transfer, but she also spoke about how she would never part with him, about how the family would never allow the transfer to take place under the conditions that were required. There were many contradictory statements."
Reno said she has no regrets concerning Saturday's pre-dawn raid
Meissner said, "That told us we had to be prepared for anything."
Roger Bernstein, an attorney for Elian's U.S. relatives, blamed the collapsed negotiations on demands made by Reno and Gregory Craig, a U.S. lawyer who represents Elian's father.
"He (Gregory Craig) is ultimately responsible for that raid taking place, as is Janet Reno," Bernstein told CNN.
One of the Miami community leaders who was involved in those negotiations said he also was surprised by the raid, which took place while he was on the phone with Reno, his longtime friend.
"I have the utmost respect for the attorney general of the United States," said attorney Arron Podhurst. "She was my friend 30 years ago. She's my friend today, and I feel for her like she feels for me."
Podhurst added, "Now, I do not agree that we weren't close to a settlement. I believe everybody was acting in good faith. I believe the Miami Gonzalez family was acting in good faith. And I believe we had made substantial progress."
Reunion called 'a most beautiful moment'
The reunion of Elian with his father was "a most beautiful moment," according to a government doctor who witnessed the event and said both Juan Miguel Gonzalez and his son cried with joy.
The account of Elian's reaction came on Monday as he and his Cuban family remained in seclusion at Andrews Air Force Base.
At first, though, Elian was dazed and disoriented when he was scooped up by rifle-toting immigration officers wearing protective gear, said Dr. Gustavo Cadavid, a Spanish-speaking government psychiatrist who accompanied the boy on the flight Saturday from Miami to the Air Force base near Washington.
"Once we took off from Miami ... he started talking ... asking where he was going, where was his uncle, where was his cousin," Cadavid told CNN.
Later, as the flight proceeded, Elian napped, played with toys and spoke to his father by telephone, Cadavid said. After landing, as the plane taxied up to a group of waiting cars, Elian peered through an aircraft window, anxiously looking for his father, the doctor said.
When Elian finally spotted him, "you should have seen the transformation of his (Elian's) face," said Cadavid. The boy smiled "and started waving at his father."
Cadavid described Elian rushing to his father, and, "The father grabbed his son. Both started to cry. Very emotional."
Cadavid denied claims the boy was drugged to calm him down. "Absolutely not. There were no medications given," the doctor said. "As far as I know, nobody did that."
Additional allegations that photographs of Elian were doctored to show him smiling after the reunion are "absurd," Lockhart said.
Protesters walk down the nearly empty street at the Miami relatives' home in Little Havana
Family may go to Wye River retreat
Juan Gonzalez is now considering where to move while the family stays in the United States awaiting resolution of the appeals. One possibility is for the family to go from the air base to the equally private Wye River Plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the site of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the past.
Meanwhile, Elian's father is turning away -- for now -- visitation requests from the Miami relatives, who traveled to Washington on Saturday just hours after the seizure.
Cadavid said Elian needs private time to grieve over the loss of his mother before the Miami relatives re-enter the picture.
Marisleysis and other relatives went to the Air Force base Monda but were turned away for the third consecutive day without being allowed to talk with Elian or his father.
The Miami relatives cared for Elian for five months following his rescue in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida last Thanksgiving. His mother was one of 11 people who drowned when the boat carrying them from Cuba sank off the coast of Florida.
Elian, clinging to an inner tube, was one of three survivors.
Correspondents Brian Cabell and Kate Snow, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Father won't see Elian's Miami relatives for time being
April 23, 2000
Elian's Miami relatives turned away from meeting with father
April 22, 2000
Federal agents seize Elian in pre-dawn raid
April 22, 2000
Reno ponders force, other options, to end Elian standoff
April 22, 2000
Elian's father pleads for son; Clinton backs boy's return
April 21, 2000
Elian's father pleads for U.S. public support; mass protest held in Havana
April 20, 2000
Transferring custody of Elian not ruled out, Reno says
April 19, 2000
Elian's well-being debated as court considers case
April 18, 2000
Unless barred by court order, INS to remove Elian from Miami home
April 17, 2000
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RELATED SITES:
U.S. Attorney General
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
U.S. Department of Justice
Executive Office of the Governor of Florida
Eleventh Circuit Published Opinions
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
LibertyForElian.org - Foundation to Help Save Elian
Granma Internacional Digital, Cuba
? Kidnap in Miami
Cubaweb
Cuban American National Foundation
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External sites are not endorsed by CNN Interactive.
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