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...judges' questions, since justices often play devil's advocate when hearing an appeal. Still, there was little surprise that the Miami family appeared a little muted after the 90 minutes of oral argument. "I think they expected that their argument that a six-year-old can seek political asylum would have been more sympathetically received by the court," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett from Atlanta. "Instead, it encountered more scrutiny and skepticism than they were prepared for. At the same time, though, two of the judges rattled the federal government by expressing serious concerns about the kinds...
Throughout the Elian drama, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has held that only the boy's father has the legal right to speak for him and that a boy his age cannot be expected to comprehend the meaning of an asylum request. But in a unanimous ruling, the three judges of the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit went out of their way to criticize the INS for not taking into consideration Elian's stated wish to stay in the U.S. The judges noted that when Congress wrote the 1980 immigration law, it specified that "any alien...may apply for asylum." Since...
...father may not be fit to decide the best interests of his son: Juan Miguel is the product of a communist regime. Who knows what kind of strongholds Castro may have over the father--what relatives of Juan Miguel's will be in danger if he seeks political asylum in the U.S. Can we know for certain if he speaks his own mind, if he actually desires to return to Cuba? Certainly...
...petition the court to allow him to take Elian and the rest of his family home to Cuba. Elian is currently bound by an injunction imposed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to remain in the country until the judges rule, in mid-May, on the application for asylum filed on his behalf by his Miami relatives. Even if the court turns down the appeal, it could extend the injunction if the Miami relatives were to take the matter to the Supreme Court. Juan Miguel Gonzalez accepted those terms when negotiations were under way to secure custody...
With Nibblebox's technical help, HRTV plans to put its shows--including the occasional news show called "Harvard Television News" and "The Asylum," a sit-com about students who run a bar out of their common room--on its own website within the week. Until now, the programs have been shown in Loker Commons...