except they were reuniting families (nice try though):
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.
[1][2] 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. 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 a September 2005 interview with
60 Minutes after being sent back to Cuba, González stated that during his stay in the U.S., his family members were "telling me bad things about [my father]", and "were also telling me to tell him that I did not want to go back to Cuba, and I always told them I wanted to."
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