In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

Get ready for a Supreme Court showdown over President Donald Trump's challenge to birthright citizenship — the idea that all children born in the United States have the same rights, regardless of ...

Despite what many pundits and even lower court judges are saying, this is not a slam dunk for the president's opponents.

The principle was upheld by the 1898 Supreme Court case United States vs Wong Kim Ark, which affirmed that children born in the US are citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status.

Wong Kim Ark was born in the U.S. and lived his whole life here. But when he returned from a trip to China in August of 1895, officials wouldn't... Birthright Citizenship Wong Kim Ark was born in ...

Native Americans born in the U.S. are U.S. citizens, and ICE cannot detain or deport them for immigration violations. Since ...

Prof. Richard Epstein replies to our Politics & Ideas columnist.

President Donald Trump’s campaign to end birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants faces a huge legal obstacle: the Supreme Court’s 126-year-old ruling, in a case from ...

The real legal precedent, reinforced by the Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), affirms that the 14th Amendment applies to all children born on U.S. soil, regardless of their ...

Sorokin asked. The DOJ argues that the high court's 1898 decision in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark has been misconstrued and therefore is not controlling. The 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause states ...

A federal judge in New Hampshire granted a preliminary injunction against an executive order that would end birthright ...