PHOTO MONTAGE STORY

Elian Gonzalez, The Boy from the Sea

Presentation Copyright (c) 2000, VIKRAM BADRINATH, P.C. All rights reserved.

April 22, 2000, A DAY IN INFAMY.

Elian Gonzalez is removed from his home in a predawn raid by government officials.Wilfredo Lee/AP

The raid was ordered by Janet Reno, Attorney General, and featured 20-40 armed INS/BORDER PATROL agents as well as other Federal agents, tear gas, and a morning raid complete with battering ram and armed "police state" tactics.

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Lazaro Gonzalez, great uncle of Elian Gonzalez, reacts with family, including his daughter Marisleysis, left, as government officials entered his Miami home to get Elian

ALAN DIAZ/POOL/AP

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Donato Dalrymple is held back by government officials after they removed Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives. Dalrymple was one of the fishermen who rescued Elian off the Florida coast five months ago, and tried to hide Elian in a closet when federal officials entered the home.

WILFREDO LEE/AP

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Ramon Saul Sanchez, leader of The Democracy Movement, holds back a fellow supporter

LM Otero/AP

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Ramon Saul Sanchez, is helped by supporters. Sanchez, who was bleeding from one ear, said he was knocked out by an agent using a rifle as a club.

Wilfredo Lee/AP

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A demonstrator kneels in front of a line of police in riot gear in Miami's Little Havana Neighborhood

AFP PHOTO

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President Clinton walks to the Oval Office after briefing reporters about the removal of Elian Gonzalez from the house of his Miami relatives. Clinton said the law had been upheld and the right thing had been done.

Doug Mills/AP

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Demonstrators, reacting to the raid that took Elian, dump trash onto the street in Little Havana near Lazaro Gonzalez's home

Beth A. Keiser/AP

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Delfin Gonzalez, great-uncle of Elian Gonzalez looks at a photograph of federal agents raiding the Miami home of his brother, Lazaro, and seizing six-year-old Elian. (AP Photo/)

Tony Gutierrez/AP

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