Fifty-six percent of Americans tell pollsters they think Eli n should be shipped back. But they're wrong. The marching Miamians understand something the others do not. We are here talking not just of Castro's crimes against would-be emigrants, grisly though they sometimes are. Rather, it is the way Castroism treats families and children that renders ludicrous the notion that any Cuban father can speak freely about what is best for his son.
Family members are Cuban hostages.
It is a routine. It determines whether they are politically reliable enough to go on to higher education or even to hold jobs. It has already happened in Eli n's case. It is to this the United States would return Eli n. First, in Castro's Cuba, we simply cannot know the underlying facts.