premise: ``No enforcement action was ever announced by the INS,'' he said.
  Alarcon, former Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, dismissed suggestions by some U.S. politicians and Elian's relatives in Miami that Elian's father travel from Cardenas, Cuba, to Miami to pick up the boy. He said Cuba has not prohibited Gonzalez from going to Miami to retrieve Elian, American attorneys -- and even American officials -- have counseled against it.
  ``We have gotten the same message from U.S. officials -- in private -- several times that it is not advisable for this man to appear in U.S. territory,'' said Alarcon.
  The concern in Cuba always has been that if Gonzalez goes he will immediately become involved in political and legal problems that will prevent his speedy return.
   What does "retrieve Elian" refer to?
hypothesis: political and legal problems that will prevent his speedy return