Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuban Military---Elian Gonzalez, The 6-year-old boy arrived in Florida after being rescued by fisherman in 1999 his mother Elian Gonzalez mother drowned and became embroiled in a custody battle between his Cuban father and American relatives.
He was returned to Cuba after a controversial raid by the federal government. Since then, Gonzalez, now 18, has led a relatively quiet life.
The custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, Elián González (born December 7, 1993), was at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, González's father, Juan Miguel González Quintana, González's other relatives in Miami, Florida, and in Cuba, and Miami's Cuban American community.
González's mother had drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with her son and her boyfriend to get to the United States.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initially placed González with paternal relatives in Miami, who sought to keep him in the United States against his father's demands that González be returned to Cuba.
A federal district court's ruling that only González's father, and not his extended relatives, could petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, federal agents seized González from his relatives and returned him to Cuba in June 2000.
Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elian_Gonzales
He was returned to Cuba after a controversial raid by the federal government. Since then, Gonzalez, now 18, has led a relatively quiet life.
The custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, Elián González (born December 7, 1993), was at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, González's father, Juan Miguel González Quintana, González's other relatives in Miami, Florida, and in Cuba, and Miami's Cuban American community.
González's mother had drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with her son and her boyfriend to get to the United States.
The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initially placed González with paternal relatives in Miami, who sought to keep him in the United States against his father's demands that González be returned to Cuba.
A federal district court's ruling that only González's father, and not his extended relatives, could petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, federal agents seized González from his relatives and returned him to Cuba in June 2000.
Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elian_Gonzales
