From: "Raymond Chuang" 

"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> All the court said was that the child couldn't be removed from the country
> pending a hearing on his appeal.

Unfortunately, the INS did one thing that is definitely illegal: they
forgot to get a proper search warrant from ANY court. The INS (or any
Federal authority) have no legal ground to grab Elian without a search
warrant. If the INS did get a search warrant, then there would have been a
lot less opposition to the whole raid. Heck, from what I've read about the
"Night of Long Knives" in 1934, even the Gestapo did actually
write up actual search and seizure warrants when they went after the SA
faction (mind you, most of the charges were of course trumped up, but the
Gestapo and SS/SD spent a couple of days creating the warrants to give the
surpression "legitimacy").

During the 1930's, the NKVD under Stalin wrote up warrant after warrant on
trumped-up charges so they could go after "enemies of the state"
during the Great Purge.

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Raymond Chuang
Mountain View, CA USA

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