Republican memory loss ~ Elián González

Elián González ~ Democrats must scream with the same fervor now, as was heard in 2000, when a young immigrant boy was held in Miami, while his father in Cuba wanted him returned home, after his mother died.

Elián González was captured and reunified with his father

Remember when Republicans were screeching at the tops of their political lungs about the urgency of returning the Cuban refugee 

Elián González to his father after the boy's mother drowned while trying to escape as a refuge to the United States?

Now, with the knowledge about up to 3 thousand innocent immigrant children who were forcibly separated from their asylum seeking parents, the same hypocritical Republicans are reticent about demanding the same urgency for children now kidnapped by immigration ie - ICE.

Elián González (born December 6, 1993) is a Cuban engineer who, as a young boy in 2000, became embroiled in a heated international custody and immigration controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States; his father, Juan Miguel González Quintana; his other relatives in Cuba and in Miami, Florida; and Miami's Cuban American community.

González's mother, Elizabeth Brotons Rodríguez, drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with González and her boyfriend to get to the United States. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initially placed González with paternal relatives in Miami, who sought to keep him in the United States against his father's demands that González be returned to Cuba.

A United States district court ruling from the Southern District of Florida that only González's father, and not his extended relatives, could petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. On January 21, 2000, Elián González's grandmothers, Mariela Quintana and Raquel Rodríguez, flew from Havana to the United States to seek their grandson's return to Cuba.

After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, by order of U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, federal agents took González from the paternal relatives and returned him to his father in Cuba in June 2000.

In the Elián González case, the Clinton administration obeyed the law.  On the other hand, the ICE officials along with Health and Human Services and the inept Donald Trump administration are unable to comply with the court order to reunite innocent immigrant families who were forcibly separated as a result of the Department of Justice "zero tolerance" policy.

Zero tolerance must apply to stopping forced family separations.

Trump's Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, must abide by the law and comply with the court order to reunite families, in the same way that the Clinton administration complied with reunification of Elián González, who was returned to his Cuban father.