When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at ...

Just hours after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to end automatic birthright ...

I THINK HE WAS MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER. HE’S TALKING ABOUT WONG KIM ARK, A PART OF HIS FAMILY HISTORY HE LEARNED LATER IN LIFE FROM HIS OWN FATHER. WHEN I FIRST HEARD IT, I DIDN’T KNOW HOW ...

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 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 ...

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 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.