I’ve been around countless Shabbos tables where people proudly tell how ancestors forged documents and devised not at all legal ways to GTFO of Russia & other places where oppression was abundant.
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Every single person who boasts of these escapes should be paying their ancestors back by helping others trying to start new lives, regardless of if they completed the paperwork or not.
Some of my ancestors arrived here using the legal system in place. Others, I can find no record of how they went from Eastern Europe to the United States. Others were here before immigration laws existed, going first into Quebec and moving south along the Connecticut River.
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