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To: lorrie coey who wrote (79026)	4/26/2000 9:35:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Because our asylum laws aren't written to protect from sexual abuse. Look up the cases, they are out there. As for his mother abducting her son to nearly kill him to get him here- it smacks of evangelistic bullshit to me. I don't like people with agendas made into plaster saints- it bugs me. All people that I've ever read of or met have an ugly side-and abducting this child- and it does appear this was an abduction- is very ugly. IF the father did anything (and this is a BIG if) that is for whatever laws there are in Cuba relating to abuse to adjudicate. If there are no laws in Cuba that is NOt our problem. The only question is whether 1. this child really understood asylum and wishes to seek it and 2. whether he qualifies under the guidelines. I don't know anything about Nihil's special exception for Cubans- but under the guidelines I looked at (for general purpose child asylum cases) he would not qualify (Imo)- he is a HERO in Cuba, he won't face any persecution- I would further guess that the boy would rather return with his father to Cuba- and I bet he tells the judge that, ergo if he states he doesn't wish asylum, and the judge determines he means it- matter is settled- it's just a guess, I have no special facts (and I've never met the boy, or his relatives- and I feel comfortable admitting I can't judge any of them long distance or by newspaper). But I feel safe making a guess about what a child who missed his one surviving biological parent might do. If I were Elian clinging to that raft I would be royally pissed at my mother for nearly turning me into shark food. And I might be calling for me DADDY.