In Havana, the government gave a guarded first response to the INS ruling, warning against  excessive optimism  and predicting  the Cuban-American mafia and the extreme right in the U.S. Congress  would still put up a fight to keep the boy. Meissner said the INS decision was made after two lengthy interviews with the boy's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, a hotel worker in Cardenas, Cuba, who Meissner said is anxious to have Elian (returned) to him.  
 Verb: returned
No