From: Bill Lucy 

In article , rchuang{at}slip.net says...
> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
> news:ta26gscba71udvqvor1fvnjsfjq5mj21j4{at}4ax.com...
>
> > 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.

From the AP wires:

INS Commissioner Doris Meissner agreed. "His father speaks for him. He
is with his father," she said.

Meissner said the raid was completely legal and that the INS agents who
seized the boy had a warrant to enter the house duly issued the night
before.

"We had a search warrant, which we got from a federal judge around 6
o'clock that evening. It was a perfectly legal, properly carried out
operation," she told CBS.


Even if they had not been served the search warrant, a court had earlier
served the family with papers ordering them to turn the child over to the
INS.

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