On this day, June 28, 2000, six-year old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez is returned to his father in Cuba after his Florida relatives lose a 7-month legal battle to keep him in the U.S.
Selected Resources on the Elian Gonzalez Case:
PBS NewsHour links to news documents: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/elian/
NYTimes coverage of the case: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/elian_gonzalez/index.html
Time Magazine Photo Essay: http://www.time.com/time/daily/special/photo/elian/
Documents from the case (via CNN): http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/06/28/elian.documents/
Selected Resources on Immigration Law:
U of MN Law Library Pathfinder: http://www.law.umn.edu/library/tools/pathfinders/immigration.html
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute’s immigration law: an overview http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/immigration.html
National Immigration Law Center http://www.nilc.org. A national support center whose mission is to protect and promote the rights and opportunities of low income immigrants and their family members. NILC staff specialize in immigration law, and the employment and public benefits rights of immigrants.
E.B. Williams Library Research Guide on Immigration Law http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/lib/guides/immigration.html
University at Buffalo Law Library Immigration Law Bibliography http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/law/guides_handouts/Immigration.pdf
Washington University School of Law Library’s Research Guide to Aliens and the Law http://law.wustl.edu/Infores/Library/Guides/alien-guide.html
