I've got to wonder here ... what difference did it make to her where she had her child? I mean, why would she have tried to get back to the U.S. in her condition? Am I to believe that she had some kind of prescience, knew her baby boy would someday wish to be president?? Or is there some other reason given? It just strikes me as odd.
Dealing with the INS is a headache. To be honest it is easier to stay in the country as an illegal alien and get amnesty later than go thru all the paperwork and fees involved in doing it properly.
I can seriously understand why she would have wanted to have him listed as born in the U.S. even if overseas.
To be honest if my wife and I were to adopt a newborn overseas, we would probably be at the hospital during birth and have our names put on the paper instead of dealing with BCIS (new name for INS), and it would have nothing to do with a future presidential run.
As for the birth announcement, could that not have been placed by his grandmother?