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To: ifinnegan
They went by the rule of law and returned Elian to his father in Cuba. I'm all for non-citizens being sent home to or with their parents.

Clinton followed the rule of law. He did not pander to the minority community and set a very bad precedent. What's the problem?

34 posted on 11/19/2013 4:05:45 PM PST by grania
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To: grania

Here’s the problem.

President Reagan fought the system and kept the legal process going until a teenage boy from the Ukraine was allowed to remain in the USA.

This boy, Walter Polovchak, now 44 has two sons, ages 18 and 9, and lives with his family in Des Plaines.

Much nicer ending. It’s called Freedom.


39 posted on 11/19/2013 4:11:43 PM PST by A'elian' nation ("Political Correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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To: grania

Lets compare this to the days of slavery before the civil war. Lets say a female slave decides to try to make her escape to one of the free states. She brings her child with her. About half way through her journey, she dies but her child makes it the rest of the way to freedom.

Then the father, still residing in the slave state as a slave, of the child demands that the child is returned to his custody where the child will be a slave too. Do you return the child to the father.


53 posted on 11/19/2013 5:12:16 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: grania

Troll.


59 posted on 11/19/2013 5:50:39 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: grania
They went by the rule of law and returned Elian to his father in Cuba.

B.S. Utter B.S. The US Govt in fact interfered in a lawful custody arrangement, sending gun-toting thugs to take the child at gunpoint and return him to Cuba. They were not willing to follow due process, they admitted as much. The case for paternal custody was too weak to fly in the federal courts. The feds were bound by law against interference in a case under adjudication. So they mooted due process at the point of a gun.

Didn't we later on find a number of Cuban agents hanging out in the Justice and State Departments?

65 posted on 11/20/2013 12:23:26 AM PST by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
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