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...time when a negotiated solution was supposedly within reach would take the inquiry into tricky waters. "The feeling on the ground here was that neither the family nor the Cuban-American leadership had any intention of ever handing the boy over," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "For weeks they'd essentially told the government that the only way to get the boy was to come and fetch him. To anyone watching this unfold over the last few weeks, the claim that a deal was near in the wee hours before the raid rings a little hollow...
...opportunity wherever Juan Miguel and his family are staying - they may find the going a little harder on the legal front. "Now that Elian has been returned to his father's custody, they appear to have no legal basis to demand visitation rights," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "However, many experts have suggested that for the boy's psychological well-being it behooves Juan Miguel Gonzalez to allow the boy access to the people who cared for him over the past six months." The father has indicated through his lawyer that while he's open to the idea...
...argue their appeal for the right to claim asylum for Elian (and for the boy to stay in the U.S. while they do so). "The ruling leaves the immediate question of Elian's custody back in the hands of the Justice Department," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Reno is free to send marshals in to get the boy and reunite him with his father, but the court's decision may make it politically harder for her to order action because the Little Havana community believes it has won a big victory, and could become even more volatile...
...appeal in their bid to seek asylum for the boy. They declined, however, to rule on whether he should be handed over to his father. "The ruling leaves the immediate question of Elian's custody back in the hands of the Justice Department," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Reno is free to send marshals in to get the boy and reunite him with his father, but the court's decision may make it politically harder for her to order action because the Little Havana community believes it has won a big victory, and could become even more volatile...
...Justice Department seems to be laying the groundwork for something more assertive than negotiation to reunite the boy with his father," says TIME Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett. "Lazaro Gonzalez's lawyers say the law doesn't compel him to physically hand the boy over, and it's now widely assumed that the only way this is going to end is when the feds go in and fetch Elian." Although the government has delayed action pending an Atlanta appeals court ruling - expected Wednesday - on who speaks for Elian, it already has the legal authority to seize him from his Miami...