[FL] INS to honor agents from Elian Gonzalez raid

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INS to honor agents from Elian Gonzalez raid

The Associated Press

MIAMI (August 9, 2000 8:47 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner will honor the federal agents who seized Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives during at a special ceremony next week.

"We are having an awards ceremony for the people who participated in Operation Reunion - and rightly so," said Maria Cardona, an INS spokeswoman in Washington. "They were people who did an extraordinary job under extraordinary circumstances."

About 130 agents took part in the April 22 pre-dawn raid that led to the reunion of the 6-year-old Cuban boy with his father. Many in the Cuban-American community denounced the raid, which included armed agents and shots of pepper spray.

Elian was rescued Nov. 25 off the coast of Florida after surviving a boat sinking that killed his mother and 10 other Cubans.

He became the subject of a seven-month custody dispute between his father in Cuba and his U.S. relatives, who fought unsuccessfully to the U.S. Supreme Court to block his repatriation. Elian returned to Cuba on June 28.

The INS ceremony will be held in Glynco, Ga., on Monday and Tuesday.


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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
 
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Honored FOR WHAT?


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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
 
It took 130 of "F" Troop's finest to pull it off?

At least they didn't shoot anyone this time. Maybe that's why they are being "honored"
 
It's the way things are. If Hitler had won World War 2 there would doubtless have been award cerimonies for GESTAPO officers and concentration camp guards.
 
And, in breaking news, Rosie O'Donnell is leading an advertising campaign to recognize the hazardous service of these fine INS agents:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>'Almost 6 months ago, they saved a little boy.
Yet, there's no national memorial to honor them.
It's time to say thank you.
Help build the National INS Elian Rescue Memorial'[/quote]

Ms. O'Donnell, a fine, patriotic American in her own right, commented "It’s been gratifying to see the way Americans have rallied to support this important memorial project. These INS agents did nothing less than help save a child from capitalism. They earned their place of honor on America’s National Mall."

;)

Live and let live. Regards from AZ
 
Yeah the INS had a mass of people armed with body armor and MP5s rush a building to get back one little kid facing no resistance. Yeah, heroes alright. I think next we need to raise a monument to all those compassionate IRS agents who raided a local diner over tax evasion, and actually took food right off people's tables, because they hadn't paid for it yet, so it belongs to the government. Those are the true heroes of Amerika, we should all fly our red flags at half mast for any of those that stubbed toes and broke nails during such stressful operations.

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I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist

The Bill of Rights is a document of brilliance, a document of wisdom, and it is the ultimate law, spoken or not, for the very concept of a society that holds liberty above the desire for ever greater power. -Me
 
Personally, I still can't get over INS having MP5s and bodyarmor.

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
 
I want and MP5 and Body armor. After all, I live not ten miles from the border of Canada.. They could invade at any moment! Such heroism, pointing a machine gun at a little 6 year old... I guess they didn't want him thinking there was any difference between the U.S. and Cuba!

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