In between shifts at Amazon to earn money she could send home to her relatives in Senegal — working opposite times as her sister-in-law so they could care for each other's children — Hassan Diol would call to talk to her husband several times a day. Amadou Beye was still in Senegal, trying to get a visa so he could also come to the United States. Amadou Beye couldn't wait to meet his child and see his wife again.
Ohio has a long history of producing people who attempt what others insist cannot be done. When two bicycle mechanics from Dayton argued that human flight was...