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malaise

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Wed Aug 14, 2019, 05:31 AM Aug 2019

So the Con's mother would not make it to the US under his new rules

http://hitchhikersgui.de/Mary_Anne_MacLeod

Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a pebbledash croft house owned by her father since 1895 in Tong on the Isle of Lewis.[2] Local historians and genealogists have described properties in this community at the time as "indescribably filthy" and characterized by "human wretchedness".[5][6] The outbreak of World War I weakened its economy and male population.[2]

Immigration to the United States
With several sisters having already established themselves there,[9] Mary Anne MacLeod may have first visited the United States for a short stay in December 1929. She was issued immigration visa number 26698 at Glasgow on February 17, 1930.[8] On May 2, MacLeod departed Glasgow on board the RMS Transylvania arriving in New York City on May 11 (one day after her 18th birthday). She declared she intended to become a U.S. citizen and would be staying permanently in America.[3][8][9] She was one of tens of thousands of young Scots who left for the United States or Canada during this period, Scotland having suffered badly the consequences of the Clearances and World War I.[10][11] The alien passenger list of the Transylvania lists her occupation as a domestic worker.[2][12]

Fred C. Trump, c. 1950
Arriving in the U.S. with $50 (equivalent to $750 in 2018), MacLeod lived with her older sister Christina Matheson on Long Island and worked as a domestic servant for at least four years.[3][8][9] One of these jobs appears to have been as a nanny for a well-to-do family in a New York suburb, but the position was eliminated due to economic difficulties caused by the Great Depression.[10] As one account has put it, she "started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land."[8] Having obtained a U.S. Re-entry Permit—only granted to immigrants intending to stay and gain citizenship[8][9]—she returned to Scotland on the SS Cameronia on September 12, 1934.[13] She was recorded as living in New York by April 1935 in the 1940 U.S. Census.[13]

Though the 1940 census form filed by Mary Anne and her husband Fred Trump stated that she was a naturalized citizen, she did not actually become one until March 10, 1942.[3][8][9] However, there is no evidence that she violated any immigration laws prior to her naturalization, as she frequently traveled internationally and was afterwards able to re-enter the U.S.[14] MacLeod returned to her home area in Scotland often during the course of her life and spoke Gaelic when she did.[10]
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So the Con's mother would not make it to the US under his new rules (Original Post) malaise Aug 2019 OP
I suspect nor would Ivana. TreasonousBastard Aug 2019 #1
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