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19 Aug 2020, 1:30 pm by raoneeri
Wong Kim Ark, which, Professor Oh explains, “held that a Chinese-American child born in the U.S. to immigrant parents was a U.S. citizen. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 12:32 pm by Scott Bomboy
Much of this precedent is based on the Wong Kim Ark decision. [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 1:51 pm by Eugene Volokh
Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Court reaffirmed that people born in the U.S. are indeed American citizens, regardless of their parents' citizenship (with narrow exceptions for "children of members of the Indian tribes," who were at the time not citizens, and "children born of alien enemies in hostile occupation, and children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign State"). [read post]
2 Nov 2018, 5:48 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Wong Kim Ark, an 1898 case, that a man born on U.S. soil to parents who were Chinese nationals was a citizen. [read post]
2 Nov 2018, 3:27 am by Scott Bomboy
They also believe the Wong Kim Ark decision was limited because Wong Kim Ark’s parents were legally in the United States at the time of his birth, and the Elk decision pertained more to birthright citizenship where a child is born to illegal immigrant parents. [read post]
21 Aug 2017, 7:33 am by Immigration Prof
In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case that Wong Kim Ark, a child of Chinese parents who was himself born in San Francisco, was indeed an American citizen. [read post]
27 May 2016, 2:15 pm by Andrew Hamm
San Francisco officials denied entry to Wong Kim Ark as he returned from a trip to China. [read post]
22 Sep 2015, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Wong Kim Ark—the provision in fact does grant such persons birthright citizenship. [read post]