In the true story of the Von Trapp Family Singers, not the fiction of the movie Sound of Music, the family first took a tour of Europe to get away from Hitler and the Nazis. When that tour of Europe was done, they decided to come to America. Maria made the mistake (by accident) of saying they intened to stay in America and were not just visiting. Basically, it was the policy at that time to detain/imprison people wanting to enter the US at Ellis Island. This was hard especially for Maria as she had a small baby at that...