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...think most people in this country feel [Elian] should go back [to Cuba]," Lord said...
...CAUSA member Manuel A. Garcia '00 said he finds it disturbing that any Cuban-Americans disagree with the Miami community and want Elian to be returned to Cuba...
...personally think of these people as traitors to the Cuban American community," he wrote in an e-mail message to The Crimson. "These people who fled or whose parents fled Cuba now want to return him to what they know will be a life without a future, without opportunities, without any freedoms. They are condemning this child to a fate that they themselves left Cuba to avoid...
Furthermore, it's disgraceful that The Crimson characterizes the resistance of Cuban-Americans to the will of the Justice Department and the INS as "the rule of the mob" and "irresponsible behavior." The editors dismiss concerns for the boy's future in Cuba as part of a "political agenda" because they don't have the faintest notion what it's like to grow up in a country with no freedom of speech, religion or the press...
...President Clinton, is it a coincidence that renewals for the immigration accords with Cuba are rapidly approaching? Is it possible that what he really fears is a repeat of the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, when approximately 125,000 Cubans fled the island? And is it a coincidence that Gregory Craig, the lawyer who "volunteered" to defend the father, was the former personal attorney for Clinton as well...