It seems every day brings new cause to wonder about those who are running our government.
For two months, government officials, lawyers and courts have bantered with relatives, refugees, a foreign government and the biological father over the fate of a little Cuban boy. Officials have vacillated one way and another over the matter of the boy being returned to his biological father in Cuba. The boy probably had no say regarding his being brought to the United States. He is not a citizen of the United States, nor was his mother. His father wants his child to be back home with him. Why then do some presume that the United States has any legal jurisdiction over the matter?Something so simple as this situation has been ridiculously argued and disputed, even up to the president of the United States.
What has happened to parental rights? If relatives can control the outcome of whether the boy remains here or is returned to his father in Cuba, what message does that send to all parents?
This incident causes concern of how qualified government officials are to make decisions on weightier matters that have much greater consequences.
One child who is a foreign citizen, two months of wrangling and haranguing, self-serving demonstrating relatives, U.S. officials, Congress and even the president have become involved to the extent that new legislation is being considered. How ridiculous can things get?
Why do government officials think they can or should control the outcome of every incident that occurs? It makes one wonder what the future will bring.
Eldon W. Burgess
Salt Lake City