In August 1895, a young cook named Wong Kim Ark was about to disembark from the SS Coptic, after a long journey home to San Francisco from China, when U.S. customs officials denied him re-entry.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — “The story of birthright citizenship is as San Francisco as they come,” City Attorney David Chiu declared. On Tuesday, San Francisco and California Attorney General ...

In 1895, as he was coming back from a visit to China, he was detained at the port of San Francisco. "They say, look, you might have been born in San Francisco, but that doesn't make you a U.S ...

For American Jews in the early 1900s, it was American to oppose immigration in order to protect America. Yet it was Jewish to support Jews.

DEPORTING UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS. CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL ROB BONTA FILED A LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE PRESIDENT’S EXECUTIVE ORDER SEEKING TO END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP. THE SUIT ARGUES ...

More than 120 years ago, a Supreme Court decision in favour of a Chinese-American man named Wong Kim Ark played a key role in ...

In 1895, a San Francisco-born Chinese American was denied entry back to the United States due to the Chinese Exclusion Act that was in effect back then. Wong Kim Ark challenged his denial back ...

Ark was born in San Francisco to immigrant parents. In 1895, he was traveling from China back home when he was denied re-entry at the Port of San Francisco. Officials claimed he was not a citizen ...

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

Since the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the United States has recognized birthright citizenship; that is, if a ...

Despite an onslaught of snow and extreme cold across Wisconsin in the week leading up to Groundhog Day, Jimmy went against the grain and predicted an early spring in 2019.