[Mr Ramsbotham]

A few Wongs don’t make a Right.

[Drew68]

Wong Kim Ark’s parents weren’t illegal immigrants. Trump is talking only about the children of illegal immigrants who shouldn’t be here and broke the law to do so.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Both of Ark’s parents were legal US residents, not illegal aliens.

Next?

[lizma2]

The SCOTUS ruling basically said birthright citizenship goes to those whose parents are here LEGALLY.

Rush said this week immigration was closed until the 60’s when “the swimmer” changed the rules cuz the rats needed a permanent underclass. Haven’t had time to research this yet.

[combat_boots]

Did Ark then accept handouts and become do nothings? No. Wong Kim Ark “established himself as a restaurant cook.”

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2171212/birth-birthright-meet-wong-kim-ark-chinese-american-whose

[cba123]

What this does not mention is that his parents owned a house in America at the time of the case.

Both of them lived in the US.

That was, in my view, significant information which the court considered in the case.

[Revolutionary]

The Supreme Court was wrong. The kid should have been given a green card, not citizenship!

[TheCipher]

It may have given us birthright citizenship, but that was only for legal immigrants. Birthright citizenship for ILLEGALS was a result of a footnote, in 1982, that Justice Brennan slipped into his 5-4 opinion in Plyler v. Doe, asserting that “no plausible distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment ‘jurisdiction’ can be drawn between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and resident aliens whose entry was unlawful.”

This was not a holding of the case. It was just dicta.Brennan’s authority for this idiotic statement was that it appeared in a 1912 book written by Clement L. Bouve. Bouve was not a senator, not an elected official, certainly not a judge — just some guy who wrote a book.

[iowamark]

http://www.federalistblog.us/2006/12/us_v_wong_kim_ark_can_never_be_considered/

[libertylover]

the United States, the place of his birth. He’d grown up in San Francisco, the son of Chinese immigrants

Hey, dummy, you forgot to tell us if his parents were legal immigrants or did they break in.

[Kay Ludlow]

It didn’t get to be the huge problem it is today till we started giving them free money...

[MamaTexan]

What the case did was lay the foundation for a totally NEW kind of citizenship, a
naturalization at birth, instead of the Constitutional method of inherited citizenship, whether it be natural born or naturalized.

Rather odd considering the 14th was written for one group only - the freed slaves. Applying it to a child of immigrants falls outside the scope of the Amendment.

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Keeping in mind the US policy at the time FORBADE making Chinese people citizens, Wong Kim was put before the Supreme Court for one reason, IMO - to provide political cover for the man of questionable eligibility who appointed Chief Justice Grey - President Chester Arthur.

[Sequoyah101]

But ONLY to the children of persons who are here LEGALLY.

This article is misleading.

[Carry me back]

The US doesn’t grant birth right citizenship. I guess NY hasn’t heard.