When the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service annouced the day before the Three Wise Men Day, the Epiphany January 6th, that Elian was going to be returned to Castro's Cuba, the Cuban American community erupted in anger and dispair. Here is a boy who arrived alive and his mother dies in the process of escaping from Communism and the US, that bastion of anti-Communism of the Cold War, will return the kid to Castro. That was enough to send chills up everyone's spines. Here is the story of a slave woman from Castro's Cuba where the workers have no rights to strike or ask for a better pay, where her son would have had an education but the education would not have been worth anything because the boy would not have been likely to work in his professional training, who died to save her son from such social calamities. Sure, the process through which the mother of Elian came to America was not legal.
Illegality is commonplace in the island of Cuba .
Furthermore, the U.S. interrests section in Havana has been known to be a place where someone can buy a visa to enter the U.S., Perhaps there one can buy a place in a rapid boat oput of Cuba. The entire process of the current relations between the castro regime and the U.S. are secret and not overseen by any particular, transparent process. In summary, the case of Elian has finally gone to court. His fate is now in the balance of power inside the U.S. governement and their dealings with the Castro regime. It will still be history is a child is capable of putting down the worst enemy of humanity who has incarnated into the Cuban form, Castro.