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 ...

A federal judge Wednesday furthered a block of President Trump’s executive order preventing the children of migrants without ...

The preliminary injunction in Washington’s case comes one day after another issued by a Maryland judge, and two weeks after a temporary pause.

Experts say that clarity about what it legally means to be a citizen is largely thanks to Wong, who to this day remains a ...

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Maryland Wednesday issued a nationwide injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive ...

Born in 1873 in San Francisco's Chinatown, Wong Kim Ark became the story of birthright citizenship as we know it today.

President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship will face its next legal hurdle this week when three ...

Birthright citizenship in the U.S. is based on the 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on ...

At the heart of the lawsuits is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the infamous ...

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.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Chinese Americans gathered in San Francisco for a press conference ...