My grandparents did. Became citizens the legal way. This crap at the border makes a mockery of all the people that went before that went through proper channels.
After I posted that I was thinking about how people from Mexico and further south came in while Ellis island was still going strong. I presume they crossed the border just like now and there was probably little border patrol for a long time. I wonder when it started and how it has been done over the years.