The story of Donald Trump’s mother, an immigrant who arrived with US $ 50 to the US.

You could say that Mary Anne MacLeodMom of the Presidentdonald Trump, arrived with one hand in front and another behind the United States. The woman, born on May 10, 1912, was a native of Tong, on the island of Lewis (Scotland), and decided to migrate to North America with only $ 50 in her pocket.

Trump’s mother embarked on May 2, 1930 in Glasgow and arrived at New York On May 11 on a ship that was named ‘Transylvania’. According to the manifesto, his passenger identification number was 901760766845, he was 18, he was single, he did domestic work, he knew how to read, he spoke English, he wrote, and his visa number was 26698.

The manifesto realizes that the woman did not intend to return to her native country and that he had issued the visa three months before the trip he undertook.

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These data are known thanks to the Statue Foundation of Liberty (Statue of Liberty Foundation), where it seeks to honor the experience of immigrants and the search for freedom, to the point that they have a list of almost 65 million records of records of Arrivals and manifestos of ships that allow the “visitors to talk with the past of the United States.”

According to Google Trends data, the story of Trump’s migrant origin is one of the increasing search trends in recent days.

This is due to the decisions made by the president Donald Trump during his first week as president of the United States. Because during the first 48 hours of his second government he gave free via migration in schools, schools and churches; He signed an executive order to deny citizens to children of undocumented immigrants; ended the application of appointments for migrants; declared an “emergency” on the border and raided the way for deportations; and restored the immediate expulsion policy of immigrants.

Donald Trump has always stressed that his mother arrived in the United States as a tourist and not with the desire to live there forever, but the historian of the National Immigration Museum of Ellis Island in New York, Barry Moreno, told the BBC that Mary Anne Macleod “came with an immigrant visa to have a permanent residence.”

Mary Anne Macleod already had family in the United States, because her three sisters already resided there. According to data collected by the authorities, Catherine, one of her loved ones, was the one who was going to shelter her in New York.

Four years after having gone to the United States for the first time, Mary Anne Macleod returned to the continent, this time with 22 years. According to the Manifesto, he traveled from Scotland to New York, where he entered on January 1, 1934 and his passenger number was 9011865437974.

With this second trip it was announced that the woman remained in the United States from 1930 to 1933, which means she lived there for three years in a row. Before going to Scotland, she processed a document to re -enter the country, which would have facilitated her entry again.

Apparently, Donald Trump’s mother was forced to migrate because “at the end of World War I, most of the men died when a ship brought them back”Michael D’Antonn, writer of ‘Never enough: Donald Trump and the search for success’ told the BBC.

Although Mary Anne Macleod came from a very poor family, she had enough resources to pay the second class when she arrived in the United States for the first time.

In 1936 he married Frederick Christ Trumpwith whom he had five children, including Donald Trump.

Twelve years after her first trip, the woman managed to obtain US citizenship, in 1942. Reaching in the United States was not easy, because at that time the North American country only accepted a limited number of immigrants by nation. In addition, they had to demonstrate that they carried at least 50 dollars to survive while they managed to get a job or meet their family, according to what Moreno explained.

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