When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American. Wong Kim Ark’s ...

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 ...

For San Francisco, it means the story of Wong Kim Ark is more relevant than ever. He was a Chinese man born in the city’s Chinatown, whose case would go on to set the precedent for who gets to ...

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I won't say it wasn't a surprise, but it happened so quickly. Norman Wong, Descendant of Wong Kim Ark: It's frightening, actually. Donald Trump, President of the United States: Birthright ...

Contrary to conventional wisdom, and the arguments put forward by the attorneys general bringing the suits, neither the Constitution nor Supreme Court precedent in the oft-cited 1898 Wong Kim Ark ...

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.

In 1898, in a case known as United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the U.S. Supreme Court found the only children who did not automatically receive U.S. citizenship upon being born on U.S. soil were ...

the key textual dispute under Section I of the 14th Amendment is whether citizenship extended to persons who weren’t “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. Wong Kim Ark (1898), which lies ...