While people in Miami-Dade County demonstrated about the Immigration and Naturalization Service raid that removed Elian Gonzalez from his Little Havana relatives, the INS held its annual picnic in Broward County.

 Latin music blared and couples danced cumbias Saturday afternoon at C.B. Smith Park in Pembroke Pines. Several hundred people attended.

 Pembroke Pines police stood guard and demanded to see either an INS badge or a yellow invitation. Broward Sheriff's Office deputies patrolled the area.

 ``I was a little scared when I saw the banner that said `Operation Rescue Reunion,' '' said Monica Gomez, a Miami-Dade resident sitting across from the pavilion. ``There were pictures of the boy Elian and his father on the wall. I didn't know what was going on over there.''

 Several agents involved in the raid on the Gonzalez home posed for photographs.

                                            -- WANDA DEMARZO

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