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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gamesmistress who wrote (4786)	5/11/2000 1:55:00 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Amazing! They should have had Marcos there, he has put forth more compelling arguments than the Clinton/Juan lawyers for Elian returning to Cuba.

To: gamesmistress who wrote (4786)	5/11/2000 2:25:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 9127

Thanks for the article. Reading between the lines I would say they are clearly keeping in mind the precedent they may be setting. But I would have to say on the whole that the case is virtually already decided with parental rights, executive branch prerogatives and common sense weighing against the presumptive general observation that Cuba is not a free state. And the rather thin corollary that therefore all of it's citizens are oppressed and deserving of asylum application status whether competent to do so on their own or not. Without a particular demonstration of Elian's imminent danger, in fact with evidence to the contrary that he has a close relationship with his father and that the father, very narrowly constructed to be in this case, should speak for his son, I think it is a case that has already decided itself on its own merits in Juan Miguel's favour. I would guess there will be a qualification not to write out all recourse with regard to seeking asylum for future cases where there may be parents looking to exert parental rights in a more demonstratively oppressive and abusive situation. But as it stands this doesn't look like such a case.