How many of you know something about Elian Gonzales, tell me some information about him?
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Elián González (born December 6, 1993) was at the center of a heated custody and immigration battle in 2000 between the Cuban and United States governments, his father, his Miami relatives, and the Cuban American community of Miami. The climactic stage of this prolonged battle was the April 22, 2000 seizure of six-year-old Elián by federal agents, which drew the ire and criticism of many in the Cuban-American community and presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush and prompted a Senate inquiry. However, after the Miami relatives' appeals met several rejections by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, and a refusal to hear the case by the US Supreme Court, Elián González returned to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel González, on the afternoon of June 28, 2000.\n\nHostility between Cuba and the United States has been persistent since the Cuban Revolution. Over that period, a considerable number of Cubans have tried to leave for the United States, hoping for greater freedom and better economic conditions. This emigration is illegal under both Cuban and US law; any Cuban found at sea, attempting to reach US shores, will be deported by the US Coast Guard or if caught by Cuban police, executed. Since the Carter era, US policy has evolved into the current "wet feet, dry feet" rule: If a Cuban refugee is picked up at sea or walking toward shore, he will be repatriated by force (i.e., sent back to Cuba against his will). If he can make it to shore ("dry feet"), he is permitted to make a case for political asylum. Under a 1995 migration accord with Cuba, Cubans who make it to US soil are generally allowed to remain in the country (a policy applied exclusively to Cubans because those returned to Cuba may face imprisonment or death).\n\nIn November 1999, Elián, his mother, and twelve others fled Cuba on a small aluminum boat with a faulty engine; Elián's mother and ten others died in the crossing. The boat was operated by his mother's boyfriend, who resided in Miami and smuggled Cubans into the US for money (a felony under federal law). Elián and the other two survivors completed the journey across the Florida Straits on an inner tube. Elián was rescued at sea by two fishermen who then gave him to the US Coast Guard.\n\nThe Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) released Elián to his great uncle, Lázaro. Lázaro's daughter, Marisleysis (first cousin once removed to Elián), became something of a maternal figure to Elián. Armando Gutierrez, a local Miami-based Cuban-American activist became the family spokesperson and a close friend of the family. INS officials told reporters neither they nor the State Department had any legal say in the matter. It was demanded that the boy be returned to Cuba to the care of his father, touching off the firestorm that ended only when Elián was taken at gunpoint by federal agents who forcibly entered Lázaro's house. Elián was flown back to Havana with his father, Juan Miguel González-Quintana, Juan Miguel's wife, their son, and a cousin, on June 28, 2000.\n\nElián's mother, Elizabeth Brotons, had taken Elián without Juan Miguel's knowledge, so in addition to the case's political refugee overtones, it was also a child custody battle. The debate was whether US immigration laws mandated that he be returned to his father, as Juan Miguel could speak for Elián only if it was assumed Juan Miguel was not under duress from the Cuban government.\n\nFor much of early 2000, Elián's plight dominated the news in the US and in Cuba. On April 14, a video was released in which Elián "tells" Juan Miguel that he wants to stay in the US. Many considered that he had been coached, as a male voice was heard off-camera directing the young boy. In a September 2005 interview with 60 Minutes Elián claimed that during his stay in the US his family members were "telling me bad things about [my father]", and &quo
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hes great even tho i dont know who he is :D\n\nhttp://www.syed-ahmed.com/family.html
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Is he a political prisoner? If so try Amnesty International. They have phone and other contact address at the website listed below.
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Happy Birthday Marines. Here's one from Ollie North:\n\nOliver North: No More Heroes? \nDecember 16, 2004 \n\nWashington, D.C. - "It's stuff you hear about in boot camp, about World War II and Tarawa Marines who won the Medal of Honor," Lance Corporal Rob Rogers of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment told the Army Times. Corporal Rogers was describing the actions of his fellow Marine, Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a Mexican immigrant who enlisted in the Marine Corps the day he received his green card. \n\nMost readers of this column probably haven't heard about Rafael Peralta. With the exception of the Los Angeles Times, most of our mainstream media haven't bothered to write about him. The next time you log onto the Internet, do a Google search on Rafael Peralta. As of this writing, the Internet's most used search engine will provide you with only 26 citations from news sources that have bothered to write about this heroic young man. Then, just for giggles, do a Google search on Pablo Paredes. Hundreds of media outlets have written about him. The wire services have blasted his story to thousands of newspapers. Television and radio debate programs gladly provide the public with talking heads that can speak eloquently on the actions of Pablo Paredes. \n\nYou see, Pablo Paredes, a Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class, did something the liberal elites consider "heroic" and the media consider "newsworthy" - he defied an order. Last week, Paredes refused to board his ship bound for Iraq along with 5,000 other sailors and Marines. He showed up on the pier wearing a black tee shirt that read, "Like a Cabinet member, I resign." \n\nWe know this because Petty Officer Pablo Paredes had the courtesy and forethought to notify the local media that he would commit an act of cowardice the following day. Perhaps he hoped to follow the lead of another famous war protestor who went on to become a U.S. Senator and his party's presidential nominee by throwing away his military medals. Petty Officer Paredes stopped short of trashing his military I.D. in front of the cameras because he said he didn't want to be charged with the destruction of government property. The media, we are promised, will continue to follow this story intently. \n\nIt is a shame that the media focus on such acts when they could tell stories about real heroes like Rafael Peralta who "saved the life of my son and every Marine in that room," according to Garry Morrison the father of a Marine in Peralta's unit - Lance Cpl. Adam Morrison. \n\nOn the morning of November 15, 2004, the men of 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines awoke before sunrise and continued what they had been doing for seven days previously - cleansing the city of Fallujah of terrorists house by house. \n\nAt the fourth house they encountered that morning the Marines kicked in the door and "cleared" the front rooms, but then noticed a locked door off to the side that required inspection. Sgt. Rafael Peralta threw open the closed door, but behind it were three terrorists with AK-47s. Peralta was hit in the head and chest with multiple shots at close range. \n\nPeralta's fellow Marines had to step over his body to continue the shootout with the terrorists. As the firefight raged on, a "yellow, foreign-made, oval-shaped grenade," as Lance Corporal Travis Kaemmerer described it, rolled into the room where they were all standing and came to a stop near Peralta's body. \n\nBut Sgt. Rafael Peralta wasn't dead - yet. This young immigrant of 25 years, who enlisted in the Marines when he received his green card, who volunteered for the front line duty in Fallujah, had one last act of heroism in him. \n\nSgt. Rafael Peralta was the polar opposite of Pablo Paredes, the Petty Officer who turned his back on his shipmates and mocked his commander in chief. Peralta was proud to serve his adopted country. In his parent's home, on his b
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Can you give us any information?  Where did you see the name?
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He was here in Utah last night and this morning.  The media quadrupled the number of Mexican's who came out to see them and massively reduced the number of Minutemen who came out to protest.  Fox canceled a press conference he was supposed to have.  I have a question....why does the President of a nation cause that life is so miserable that his people die trying to get out!  He has gotten BILLIONS of dollars from our government.  A billion a year gets sent back to Mexico by illegals who work here.  What good is all that money doing?  Many "someones" are lining their pockets while their people starve and run to America.  I hope that you have a HUGE protest.  I also hope you start turning in employers who hire illegals to www.ice.com so that they can start paying heavy fines for committing a felony.  I hope that you folks in California are able to put all those liberals out of office...better watch the voting machines, they are fixed.
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Are you malaysian?Sometimes ago I was doing the research on this person,and coincidentally I found the this website :www.yayasantunrazak.org.my  ,You will find many things about him here.
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Yes hes super funny...\n\nI heard somewhere that hispanic people DONT like him...\n\nI hope its a rumor
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I read somewhere that he is quite popular. Furthermore, he has managed to curb the influence of the drug cartels and still remain alive! Not an easy feat for a Colombian President who declares war on drugs.\n\nHis success against the cartels has made it difficult for them to kill him. His death would provoke an outcry from the public and the fall-out would be worse for the drug lords, than it presently is.\n\nSo good on him, on his re-election and here's hoping that he can severely curb the cartels and at the same time boost Colombia's economy
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email me his name and last known location and any other info you have on him, like date of birth etc.  I will see what I can do.\n\nonejazzyjul@yahoo.com
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start at the site below. article on him. hope it helps
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One would safely assume that since you are aware of the situation, that this person is having some success in communicating with the outside world?  With that in mind, I would do my best to get in touch with the sympathetci media outlets (think national/regional as opposed to local) the ACLU, Amnesty International, The John Howard Association (this would be my first pick personally), the justice project at Northwestern University (IL), also with any other university/law school or organization that does pro bono type work, and many times have contacts at media outlets that may be able to exert some pressure on "the powers at be" through those channels.  Not to be a pain in the rear, but IMHO it is very impractical and unwise to represent yourself, this situation being a perfect example of the pitfalls...in an ideal world, he should/could contact the KS Attorney General's Office, the Governor's Office, or perhaps even the Dept. Of Justice in DC, however in this day and age most complaints against "the establishment" or "the system" fall on deaf ears amongst other members of the machine, particularly as we seem to be removing the concepts of real justice and  humanity from our increasingly greedy and corrupt society and government bodies at a breakneck pace...bottom line tell the inmate to KEEP HIS NOSE CLEAN (as they are undoubtedly gunning for him) keep trying and good luck as the odds are highly stacked against him...
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If you know what city and state, you can probably go on line to the clerk of courts and pull up all sorts of interesting information about him.  \n\nCheers!\n\nHere's one from Duval county, FL, but I doubt if it is the same guy.
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What a fantastic sheriff he is. Very dedicated law man. Don't break the law and you have nothing to worry about. He would be an excellent candidate for head of homeland security. We in AZ are very happy with our sheriff. The number of volunteers he has is amazing.
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haha, lol. yeah, i heard about Cheney. When he shot the guy, he hit him in a heart muscle, and now hes in the hospital after he had a heart attack. poor guy...
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Gerardo Gonzalez was better known as Kid Gavilan.\nSee info and record below:
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you can know some info about him on Yahoo! People or you can see his profile by Yahoo! member directory..\n************************************************