White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt communicated some of the Trump administration’s abhorrent policies in her first ...
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.
Born in 1873 in San Francisco's Chinatown, Wong Kim Ark became the story of birthright citizenship as we know it today.
Before joining the bench, however, he wrote an essay directly addressing birthright citizenship and said the 14th Amendment and Wong Kim Ark case protected children of undocumented immigrants.
A Chinese man born in the San Francisco's Chinatown whose case would go on to set the precedent for who gets to be a U.S. citizen.
The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark — whose landmark 1898 Supreme Court case helped establish a birthright citizenship for all ...
“For over a century, since a young Chinese American cook from San Francisco named Wong Kim Ark won his case at the Supreme Court, birthright citizenship for all — including babies born to immigrants — ...