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.

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

Tourists and illegal aliens aren’t subject to the ‘full and complete jurisdiction’ of the United States.

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 ...

No court in the country has ever endorsed the president’s interpretation” in the past 125 years, the judge stated.

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.

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.

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 ...

Wong Kim Ark. It was a case that would change the path of American immigration law and play a pivotal role in the ongoing battle over who gets to be a citizen of the United States. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

A San Franciscan’s landmark legal victory almost 130 years ago helped firmly define what it means to be an American citizen — a longheld understanding that could be completely upended if an ...

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 ...