If there was an easier way to enter the country, would she have taken it? To cross an ocean and land ashore is not exactly undetectable.
I must disclose that my lineage has been on this hemisphere since the "discovery" of the west. So our perspectives do not coalesce. Think of the other Ellis Island.
Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
Actually, our respective family heritages do codeless in terms of centuries of oppression and even genocide. My people, on my father's side, were Eastern European Jews. Half his extended family did not survive the Holocaust. The grandmother in question did (somehow) survive a concentration camp and the following Communist occupation.
So my guess is that there is a good bit of commonality of experience between my extended family history and yours.
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The point of that "full disclosure" statement is that my people enterted the country legally, with papers and became citizens within the way normal for their era.