Just pointing out that it was a completely biased site that had great difficulty in reporting "facts" , nothing at all like the Cuban American Foundation which is reknowned for it unbiased objectivity towards the current regime .
But you are right Gawain you did say
I find it hard to believe those pictures represent what hospitals are really like there .
So sorry ,that must show how blatantly false the majority of that site is .

Now as for Elain .
Firstly should he , in accordance with your countries laws , have been repatriated straight away as he was a "wetfoot" not a "dryfoot" ?
Secondly , would any court in the land have granted custody to a distant relative who happened to be to a convict with a history of alcohol problems and a track record of failing to bring up his own children without them also becoming convicts ?
Thirdly , if he was a Mexican whose mother had drowned in the Rio Grande while arrempting to illegally enter the US would it even have become such an issue ?