When an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel extended an injunction barring anyone from taking Elian Gonzalez out of the country pending a review of his appeal for an asylum hearing, court watchers weren't surprised. But what did raise eyebrows was the panel's embrace of arguments made by Elian's Miami relatives that immigration law allows "any alien," even a young child, to apply for asylum.
April 20, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The federal appeals panel presiding over the fate of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez surprised observers not by what they did but how they did it.
Court-watchers said they had expected the three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to keep the status quo, extending an injunction that bars anyone from taking the boy out of the country pending their May 11 review of his appeal for an asylum hearing.
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