Since when a 6-year old has the capacity to pursue legal actions in the US, seeking asylum or otherwise? By all legal standrads, Elian was a victim of kidnapping - under most state laws transporting a kid to another state (let alone country) without a consent of a non-custodial parent amounts to that.
It is as if someobody tried to steal acar form my neighbor but abandoned it in my driveway - it would be preposterous for me to keep the car claiming that the neighbor owes me money.
The INS screwed things up when they found the boy - they should have returned him to Cuba immediately as they do with thousands of other illegal immigrants trying to enter this country.
wojtek