Let American Consumer Counseling Help you Get Out of Debt!ElianGonzalez should stay in the U. S. Dear Rosa Delauro,After reading many articles in the newspapersand magazines that all state, 6 year old Elian Gonzalez has been in themiddle of an international tug-of-war since he was found on ThanksgivingDay. Clinging to an inner tube at sea for two days drifting after his familyand him were trying to escape from Cuba for freedom.
I have decided thatit is the right thing for little Elian to stay in the United States. The phone rings: “Your 6-year old son hasjust been found in the ocean, shipwrecked, clinging to an inner tube. Hismother drowned. He is now in Miami hospital. ” Do you respond? “I’ll bethere as soon as I possibly can.
” or “Send him back to me. I demand it. “Elian’s biological father Juan Gonzalez was asked again and again. Whyhe didn’t go to Miami to see his son. He didn’t answer the question allhe demanded was that his son be returned to him, finally threatening theMiami relatives with whom Elian is staying with.
Juan says his son is thesubject of not only kidnapping but also child abuse. If your son was kidnappedand abused, and the U. S. attorney general publicly said you were able tocome see him.
Would you stay home? Well Juan Gonzalez is staying home. Why does he lack true affection for the his son? Is he one of those politicalsimpletons so colored with Fidelism that he would rather let his abusedson fail than give the slightest political advance to the U. S. to see him.
Should Elian be trusted to such a man like his father? Juan lacks the abilitiesto provide even the basics for Elian. That is, food, security, justice,freedom and the right to be happy. I think that Elian’s father should notbe trusted with his son because he can’t even come to the U. S. to see howhis son is.
If any man in there right mind were able to leave Cuba to comesee their child they would drop ever thing for them. Elian shouldn’t betrusted with a man who demands his son be brought back to Cuba and can’tgive him food, security, justice, freedom and the right to be happy. WhenElian was asked if he wanted to be with his father he said “He cares forhis father but he would like his father to be here with him. “The Miami cousins said they are doing morethan giving life to the dying wishes of Elian’s mother. She risked, andgave, her life to bring him to freedom. They insisted they could give Eliana better life than his father could in Cuba.
“I was suprized because Ialways thought this was a place of liberty and they are not letting himkeep the liberty,” said the cousin. They have brought Elian to Disney World,celebrated Christmas in the U. S. and enrolled him is school.
They are givingthe boy a life better than his father can. If Elian is raised here in theU. S. he would he free to go. If he were raised in Cuba he wouldn’t evenbe allowed to intend leaving. He would be a child of the state.
Congresshas it right, grant the poor little poster boy citizenship. “American citizenshipis a badge of freedom, a license to liberty, an imposition” said the cousin. There is hunger in Cuba. “It’s a crimeto send him back, there is food here. ” Said Melba. There is not enoughmedicine.
What about the little boys education? “If we send him back toCuba, we are letting Castro have what he wants, and Castro is a very evilman” said Melba. Juan Gonzalez should want his boy to grow up in the UnitedStates were his mother died for him. Elian’s mother gave her life for thefreedom of her son. “Today’s decision violates her desires for Elian andinstead delivers him to a country where an oppressive director does notallow hope and where people lack the most basic human rights” said John.
Awaiting for Clinton’s arrival, a group of people yelled through bullhorns,”Elian, we are with you. The people are with you. ” They waved signs thatsaid “We want Elian in the USA,” “Freedom from Cuba,” and “Down with Tyranny. “Elian is still a baby he should be allowed to live in the United Statesand have freedom that is what his mother wanted him to have.
Migual Gonzalez said that the boy is notgoing back to a dreary island prison. Elian’s mother died for the boy toenjoy freedom and justice; so he could be able to pursue happiness, togrow as an individual and to be respected as such. His mother died forhis future. There using Elian as a toy and Fidel Castrois saying “He’s mine not yours. ” To them this is about fighting Castronot about the well being of the boy.
Elian will grow up to risk his lifeat the Florida Strait or to rot in a political prison. That’s enough reasonto keep him in the United States. Thank you for taking your time to readthis letter.
