He's pointing at the location where Wong Kim Ark was born. His life became the story of birthright citizenship as we know it today. Wong Kim Ark was born to Chinese parents, who like many Chinese ...

Wong Kim Ark, a San Francisco-born cook, had left the country to visit China and was barred from re-entering the U.S., arrested, and confined to the ship he had traveled in upon his return in 1895.

The Supreme Court explicitly affirmed birthright citizenship for children of immigrants, regardless of their parents’ immigration status, in the 1898 case of Wong Kim Ark vs. the United States.