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

As reported by The New York Times, the story of Wong Kim Ark began in the late 1800s when anti-immigrant sentiment was ...

Despite what many pundits and even lower court judges are saying, overturning Trump’s order is not a slam-dunk: the Supreme ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...