German authorities had given him eight weeks to leave and denied him repatriation because he failed to complete his mandatory military service and to register his initial emigration to the US 20 years earlier. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree.
Mr Trump was born in the village of Kallstadt, in the Rhineland region in west Germany in In the latest deportation sweep, immigration officers arrested people in communities across the US over a four-day span in July. Among them, had no criminal records. I was born in Kallstadt on March 14, My parents were honest, plain, pious vineyard workers.
They strictly held me to everything good — to diligence and piety, to regular attendance in school and church, to absolute obedience toward the high authority. After my confirmation, in , I apprenticed to become a barber. I emigrated in , in my sixteenth year. In America I carried on my business with diligence, discretion, and prudence. I obtained American citizenship in In I met my current wife. Sadly, she could not tolerate the climate in New York, and I went with my dear family back to Kallstadt.
The town was glad to have received a capable and productive citizen. My old mother was happy to see her son, her dear daughter-in-law, and her granddaughter around her; she knows now that I will take care of her in her old age. But we were confronted all at once, as if by a lightning strike from fair skies, with the news that the High Royal State Ministry had decided that we must leave our residence in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
We were paralyzed with fright; our happy family life was tarnished. My wife has been overcome by anxiety, and my lovely child has become sick. Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree — not to mention the great material losses it would incur.
