I agree. It’s like chinese water-torture, drip drip drip and finally it wears a hole in your head...I would like to add this - what if she didn’t arrive from Kenya, but came from Canada, from an unmarried mother’s home?
What requirements would she need to fulfill at entry into the US?
We can follow that branch of the tree later, But now we’re looking for the lists at the port of Entry for Baltimore Maryland....Stanley Ann D. Obama Have I spelled her name correctly?
Fred do you know how to get to the government location that list the folks that enter through each port....I’ve found one that list those before 1950s.
She would have been waved through given how lax crossing from Canada into the U.S. was at the time. They may have asked the driver for their driver’s license but they ignored passengers. I actually experienced this crossing into the U.S. from B.C. in the 60’s.
back in ‘61, I was traveling with a group of HS kids from church to Vancouver, BC from WA State. We crossed the border at Blaine into Canada and also returning to the USA a few days later.
The border agents, both northbound and southbound, only questioned the driver. We were waved through without showing ID - nothing. Matter-of-fact, I know I carried no ID identifying myself as a US citizen.
Then again, in ‘69, we drove up to Canada from E. WA, crossed the border, I, as the driver, showed ID (Wa DL), passed through each way, and we were on our way to visit Cananda and return. Never even occurred to us that we would need a passport. That’s just the way things were in the good ol’ days.