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

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (6785)	6/1/2000 2:04:00 AM
From: jhild	Respond to of 9127

A ruling in the Elian Gonzalez case is expected Thursday from a federal appeals court in Atlanta, police said Wednesday. Miami police had requested advance notice of the decision to prepare for possible protests from the Cuban-American community. "It's confirmed. There's going to be an announcement of the decision tomorrow sometime, probably in the morning," spokesman Lt. Bill Schwartz said Wednesday night in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. The 6-year-old Cuban boy, who was forcibly taken from the home of his Miami relatives, has not been allowed to leave the country until the 11th U.S. District Court of Appeals in Atlanta decides the case. Elian and his Cuban family had been living in a secluded Maryland retreat, but recently moved to a Washington, D.C., estate. Three appeals court judges are considering whether a child as young as Elian can seek asylum despite his father's wish to return with the boy to Cuba. Elian was found floating on a tire tube off Florida's east coast last Thanksgiving after a journey that took the lives of his mother and 10 other Cubans trying to reach the United States. Elian's case quickly developed into a legal tug of war between his Miami relatives, who wanted the boy to stay with them, and the boy's father, who wants to return to Cuban with his son. The Miami relatives want the court to force immigration officials to give Elian an asylum hearing. The government has sided with Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who says he should be allowed to decide for the boy as his sole surviving parent. Kendall Coffey, an attorney representing Elian's Miami relatives, said he had not received notice about the ruling. After the April raid by agents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Border Patrol, thousands in Miami's anti-Castro Cuban exile community took to the streets to express their outrage. More than 300 people were arrested. Schwartz said police would not be out in force Thursday rather the opposite. "We're taking a very laid back approach, Our intelligence is not telling us that we have to expect trouble," he said. http://www.foxnews.com/national/cubaboy/index.sml