Indulge me in some pride about my father, Ford Lee. This article describes his lifelong devotion to the Chinatown YMCA in San Francisco. The article was written some time ago, but he continues to spend time supporting and encouraging Chinatown kids. This last summer, at the age of 83, he traveled up to the Sierras again to sleep in a sleeping bag and cook for the kids at summer Y camp.
I also have an older picture, of his father, my grandfather, Lim Guey Him, on an immigration document. He came to the United States using an alias, as a “paper son,” fraudulently claiming to be the son of a legal resident. He was an illegal immigrant. (I’ve written about him before.)
So my Dad, born in San Francisco, is a citizen by birthright citizenship.