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In 1895, a young man called Wong Kim Ark was detained at the Port of San Francisco when he returned from a trip to China. He was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrant parents -- who had returned to China by then -- but authorities maintained that he was not an American citizen, on account of his parents being subjects of the Chinese Emperor.

Wong fought a protracted legal battle and in 1898, the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, stating that since Wong was born in the United States, he was an American citizen, even though his parents were not American citizens or permanent residents.

A century and a quarter after that landmark ruling that set a str

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