Word: meissner
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...wall. Huddled in her small inner office, she polled all her top advisers: they were unanimous. "You could see she was very anguished. You could see the pain," says one of those in the room. So she told the negotiators, "Time has run out," gave INS chief Doris Meissner the go sign, and the wheels of Operation Reunion began to roll. "I was shocked," says Podhurst. "I think we could have worked...
...father. The Immigration and Naturalization Service announced a ruling Wednesday that the six-year-old who became a poster child for anti-Castro Cubans after surviving a shipwreck in the Florida Strait must be returned to his father by January 14. The decision was based, said INS official Doris Meissner, on the fact that "family reunification is the cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy." His Miami relatives, backed by the local anti-Castro political machinery, are expected to seek a legal injunction against sending Elian home, but it's unlikely that any federal judge will overrule the INS given that...