The INS is still threatening to begin repatriation moves on Tuesday unless the six-year-old's great-uncle agrees to surrender the boy voluntarily if he loses a court battle to win political asylum for Elian.
Unless we are insistent that the latter not surrender the powers we voluntarily confer on it to the Transies' unrepresentative supranational bureaucracies, however, we will inexorably find ourselves neither sovereign, secure nor free.