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Girl taken from foster home because ethnicity.
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<blockquote data-quote="Cimorene" data-source="post: 69424848" data-attributes="member: 383722"><p>This thread is posted in the News & <em>Current Events </em>section. So, as far as current events go 16 yrs is an extremely long time. There are a few parallels between what happened w him way back then & what is happening with this girl now. I guess the benefit of so much time having passed is that Elian is now an adult & can speak for himself about his feelings. I think what he has to say about his life counts for way more than our opinions or speculation about it. Yes I know their freedom of speech is limited but I find what he's repeatedly said in interviews to be believable. I can def. understand why he was glad to have grown up with his one living parent & his brothers. That counts for a ton. Especially for a kid who already has gone through the trauma of having lost a parent. As you said his mom tragically died tried to get him to America. Obviously everything would have been different if she had lived & could have raised him herself. I can see both sides of things. If he had stayed in America w his extended relatives maybe he would have had more opportunities. Maybe not. He seems to be doing pretty great for himself in Cuba & to be happy w his life. A lot of ppl probably would have wanted him to be booted from America the second he turned 18. I don't know if he would have been able to visit with his father, stepmom, siblings & all other relatives in Cuba while growing up if he stayed in America. That would have been hard on any kid. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Do you really want to derail this thread to talk about all that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cimorene, post: 69424848, member: 383722"] This thread is posted in the News & [I]Current Events [/I]section. So, as far as current events go 16 yrs is an extremely long time. There are a few parallels between what happened w him way back then & what is happening with this girl now. I guess the benefit of so much time having passed is that Elian is now an adult & can speak for himself about his feelings. I think what he has to say about his life counts for way more than our opinions or speculation about it. Yes I know their freedom of speech is limited but I find what he's repeatedly said in interviews to be believable. I can def. understand why he was glad to have grown up with his one living parent & his brothers. That counts for a ton. Especially for a kid who already has gone through the trauma of having lost a parent. As you said his mom tragically died tried to get him to America. Obviously everything would have been different if she had lived & could have raised him herself. I can see both sides of things. If he had stayed in America w his extended relatives maybe he would have had more opportunities. Maybe not. He seems to be doing pretty great for himself in Cuba & to be happy w his life. A lot of ppl probably would have wanted him to be booted from America the second he turned 18. I don't know if he would have been able to visit with his father, stepmom, siblings & all other relatives in Cuba while growing up if he stayed in America. That would have been hard on any kid. Do you really want to derail this thread to talk about all that? [/QUOTE]
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