After more than a century, Wong Kim Ark is in the news again — although presidential candidates seldom mention his name. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that ...

On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order aimed at ending automatic citizenship — known as “birthright citizenship” — for children born in the United States to two ...

Detained aboard steamers in the San Francisco Bay for months, Wong Kim Ark pursued his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting the precedent for birthright citizenship ...

Wong Kim Ark battled nativists all the way to the Supreme Court. His 1898 victory established the definition of U.S. citizenship in a landmark decision. ... United States v. Wong Kim Ark.

Detained aboard steamers in the San Francisco Bay for months, Wong Kim Ark pursued his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting the precedent for birthright citizenship By Noreen O'Donnell ...

Author and historian Erika Lee shares the story of Wong Kim Ark and the landmark 1898 Supreme Court case that guaranteed birthright citizenship, regardless of a parent’s immigration status.

In his brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the U.S. Solicitor General Holmes Conrad wrote that under international law, Wong’s citizenship followed that of his ...