For a country that began with immigrants from overseas, one of the questions that has always been parallel to the creation of the United States is “who counts as an American citizen?” One of the milestones that has helped draw that line in the sand is the case between the federal government and a Chinese-American man, Wong Kim Ark.
Wong was born in San Francisco in 1873 to Chinese parents, five years after the passage of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which defined all persons born in the United States and brought under the jurisdiction of Washington as citizens, was originally created to provide new citizenship status to formerly enslaved people after the South lost the Civil War. สล็อต