EDITORIAL � April 28, 2000
Who controls Elian?
It's all very well to plan, as does Rep. Henry
Hyde, a "preliminary inquiry" into the
storm-trooper-style seizure of Elian Gonzalez, or to
summon, as did Sen. Trent Lott, the attorney general
to Capitol Hill to address senators' concerns about
the government's pre-dawn raid on the Gonzalez
home in Miami. But there is a time-ticking urgency to
the bullet-train of events that the infamous raid set in
motion.
According to a ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of
Appeals, Elian Gonzalez is a plaintiff in an asylum
case scheduled to be heard on May 11 in Atlanta.
Will the little boy still have his day in court,
post-raid? The Justice Department has, for the time
being, obtained through the raid what it could not
achieve through the courts: stone-walling Elian's
asylum petition. Since he was forcibly taken from the
home of his Miami relatives, Elian has been unable to
meet with the lawyers who are representing his claim
for U.S. asylum.
On Thursday, the appeals court rejected a
request from Elian's Miami relatives for visitation
rights with the boy or to have the court appoint a
neutral, temporary guardian. The court's ruling,
however, doesn't make Elian's father the child's sole
legal representative of his asylum petition. "Last week
the court ruled that once the INS [Immigration and
Naturalization Service] designates a guardian and an
asylum application has been filed, it can't change that
designation and it must hear the application for
asylum," said Andrew Napolitano, a former New
Jersey Superior Court judge, in a telephone interview
with this editorial page.
After daily, televised global media access to the
shipwrecked six-year-old for five solid months, Elian
is in seclusion at a private estate on the Wye River.
Visual information about Elian's condition has been
limited to posed family portraits sporadically issued
"Courtesy Greg Craig." Incredibly, astonishingly, the
supposedly free media are content to rely on Mr.
Craig and his handouts, a man accurately described
by Justice Department spokeswoman Carol Florman
as Elian's "liaison � with the public, media and
Justice Department." Throw in gatekeeper and
censor and Mr. Craig's portrait is more complete.
It is Mr. Craig who decides who snaps photos
and who doesn't. It is Mr. Craig who decides who
gets in to see Elian and who doesn't. In the latter
category fall all of Elian's lawyers, all of the media
and, of course, all of Elian's Miami family. To qualify
as one of Mr. Craig's chosen people, one must come
from either the National Council of Churches or the
Cuban Interests Section.
If Elian's life behind closed gates, courtesy Mr.
Craig, is a mystery, it is all too clear what the little
boy's legal future holds. On Monday, the Justice
Department filed a lengthy brief with the 11th Circuit
Court of Appeals arguing against his asylum claim
(which the court has recognized), portraying it as the
illegitimate concoction of "a distant relative." The
brief further argues to uphold a federal court decision
that would send Elian back to Cuba, noting that �
and this really rings the outrage bell � there is an
"absence of evidence that Elian will suffer persecution
if he returns home."
Absence of evidence? Since Fidel Castro himself
has broadcast his plans for Elian � a three month
re-education program right off the bat � the Justice
Department is either ignorant, delusional or, as is far
too often the case in the Reno years, just plain lying.
But to what end? America needs to find out � and
fast.
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