The court noted that Wong Kim Ark’s parents had at the time “a permanent domicil and residence in the United States,” yet the court did not condition its interpretation of the 14th Amendment ...

IT WAS PRESENTED AS OLD HISTORY, DONE, SETTLED. WONG KIM ARK WAS BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1873 TO CHINESE IMMIGRANT PARENTS ON SACRAMENTO STREET. IN HIS 20S, HE RETURNED TO THE CITY FROM A TRIP TO ...

Wong Kim Ark was the 21-year-old son of Chinese merchants who had entered the U.S. legally. Under the Exclusion Act, the parents were not permitted to get naturalized. It was an era of rampant ...

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RUND ABDELFATAH, BYLINE: It all began when Wong Kim Ark, a San Francisco-born cook, tried to return to California after visiting China, his parents' homeland. AMANDA FROST ...

Born in 1873 in San Francisco's Chinatown, Wong Kim Ark became the story of birthright citizenship as we know it today.

But it took an 1898 Supreme Court decision to establish that it applied to everyone, regardless of their parents' status or nation of origin. A 20-year-old man named Wong Kim Ark, born and living ...

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More than 20 states have sued the Trump administration, saying it has disregarded over 125 years of legal precedent which has guaranteed that a person born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen.

Wong Kim Ark was the 21-year-old son of Chinese merchants who had entered the U.S. legally. Under the Exclusion Act, the parents were not permitted to get naturalized. It was an era of rampant ...