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Speaker 2: I handed only into mister Gonzales and both of them.

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Speaker 2: If anybody ever thought that this was staged or artificial,

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Speaker 1: This scene of Elian and his father embrace him for

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Speaker 1: When Elea lived in Cuba, he split his time between

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Speaker 4: And I demand, and I think I have the rights

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Speaker 1: Most too want exiles in Miami agreed with Mary Leasis.

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Speaker 3: The city was a blaze.

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Speaker 5: This is the last thing I can assure you that

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Speaker 6: Miami was all in mourning for Ilian. They were just

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Speaker 6: I think they were shocked. They had expected the raid

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Speaker 6: I think people felt powerless because they hadn't been able

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Speaker 1: Miami. Two ones could not stop the government from taking

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Speaker 7: Dear gas.

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Speaker 8: Tear gas.

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Speaker 4: Johnny, come back to us, Chazz right now, Chazz, right now, Chaz,

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Speaker 1: Chet And the future of Illana and his father was

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Speaker 1: Later, Minus and this is chess Peace. The Elean Gonzalez

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Speaker 1: The day after the raid, the Gonzalezes of Miami called

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Speaker 10: What was done in my house.

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Speaker 4: Was the worst thing that could have happened to a family.

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Speaker 1: Twenty one year old Mary Lezy Gonzalez spoke alongside her

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Speaker 3: She was distressed, but determined his.

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Speaker 11: Father could have done this in a very peaceful way.

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Speaker 10: All I ask is.

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Speaker 11: I need to see Elean and the conditions that they

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Speaker 10: She was vulnerable and I know this boy needs to

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Speaker 1: In a twenty seventeen Ciena documentary, Eleann spoke about Mary

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Speaker 1: She spoke about a widely published photo of Eleane and

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Speaker 3: I respect that.

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Speaker 1: For Eleian, the legal battle was not over yet, even

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Speaker 5: Filed a request for an injunction against irons, and the

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Speaker 1: Kendall Coffee, one of the family's lead attorneys. As a

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Speaker 2: Lit the city on fire. Here in Miami, they were

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Speaker 11: This is abuse, this is abused to the Cuman.

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Speaker 12: I'm ashamed to be American.

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Speaker 10: I'm a shame to be an American city. Let me

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Speaker 11: Can will you express your anger?

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Speaker 1: And nobody can tell.

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Speaker 10: Nobody can tell what's gonna happen in the future.

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Speaker 1: Back to the Dad over eighty percent of Cuban Americans,

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Speaker 1: He was tasked with damage control because things were not

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Speaker 2: We were losing both right. At that point, we were

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Speaker 1: In the aftermath of the raid, the leader of this

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Speaker 3: Then Emiel received some good news.

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Speaker 1: The court sided with the Irons, saying that only Jamiel

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Speaker 1: In the course decision, he said, as his father, I

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Eleana, and his dad would finally be going

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Speaker 1: The plane he saw that June was carrying Elian Gonzalez

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Speaker 1: Now that he was on that plane landing in Cuba.

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Speaker 3: Of Miami voters. And to tell you what happened.

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Speaker 1: That is, Tasha reflects on the Liang case with her

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