Attorney General Eric Holder could hardly contain his tears when he explained his program titled “Justice AmeriCorps” to provide emergency legal representation for the tens of thousands of Central American minors illegally swarming through our southern border.
“How we treat those in need, particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings, many of whom are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse or trafficking – goes to the core of who we are as a nation,” Holder said while detailing his program to provide 100 lawyers and paralegals for the minors.
And yet it was (then) Deputy Attorney General Holder who concocted the “legal” cover for the Immigration and Naturalization Service to mace, kick, stomp, and gun-butt their way into the home of Elian Gonzalez’s legal custodians (legal U.S. citizens, all) on the morning of April 22, 2000, wrench a bawling 6-year-old child from his family at machine gun point and bundle him off to Fidel Castro’s terror-sponsoring fiefdom, leaving 102 people (all of them legal U.S. citizens and residents) injured, some seriously.
Hum-Boy-Dah,
You left out the Pulitzer winning photo of the Elian home raid:
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/elian/elian-gun1.jpg
Here are more photos of how it took 151 agents of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) to seize Elian
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ins-raid.htm
A history of the Elian case is found here
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/academic/Elian-Gonzalez.pdf
Mucho thanks, professor. Some of your pic are now posted.
I expect that bitch, I mean minion, in the second photo got a nice bonus for her trouble. But, to be fair, she probably thought, or told herself, that she was acting in the child’s best interest. You know, like the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, who later actually had the grotesque bad taste to congratulate herself by declaring Elián had taken to calling her “mama” (or some obscenity to that effect, considering what had happened to his real mother). Lord, the nausea.