Until the Supreme Court of the United States rules on Trump v. Barbara (birthright citizenship), I will not be sure if my sister or I are true citizens of the USA. We were both born in New York City in 1948 and 1952, respectively, but our parents were German refugees who came to the U.S. in 1937 and 1939, escaping the Holocaust.

I am not sure what year my parents became citizens (I believe my father became a citizen around 1952). At this week’s Supreme Court hearing, allegiance of immigrants to our country was the first topic discussed. In fact, the solicitor general of the U.S., D. John Sauer, opened his argument against birthright citizenship by stating the following: “It did not grant citizenship to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens, who have no such allegiance.”

In this regard, I thought that I would like to share this photo with Mainers. This is my father, in Germany with the 399th Military Division, at the end of World War II. Regarding John Sauer’ s statement about immigrants’ allegiance to the U.S., on the back of this picture, my father, an immigrant from Germany where beer is the national pastime, this U.S. soldier and immigrant wrote, “Drinking a good American beer!”

Need I say anything more to the court?

Michael Levi
Scarborough