Since they've been vilified for so long, I think they feel they need to react just to be heard. However, the media just uses it against them and as an opportunitiy to again caricaturize them. They had every right to be mad at Clinton-Reno, who proved themselves to be no better than Castro! Hell, a lot of people were mad, but you'd never have known it.
The boy, Elian, had a right to a family court hearing on his immigration status and he was denied. It was ruled he could stay with his relatives pending the outcome and he was denied and taken in an armed raid to be given to the lawyer in opposition to his being free. He was placed in the care of Cuban agents brought from the island.
It is an outrage what was done by the Clinton administration. A similar situation would have been handled differently. But Castro is the media's idol and the Left's favorite thorn in our side, so Elian had to go and the community in Miami was standing in their way. What a gallant fight they made. What a memorable example of doing the right thing in the face of overwhelming opposition. My hat is off to them.
...Castro may have had some knowledge of a Clinton/Gore-China connection that would have proved embarrassing were it revealed.