What is United States v. Wong Kim Ark?
{{Infobox SCOTUS case |Litigants=United States v. Wong Kim Ark |ArgueDate=March 5 |ArgueDateB=8 |ArgueYear=1897 |DecideDate=March 28 |DecideYear=1898 |FullName=United States v. Wong Kim Ark |SCOTUS=1898-1902 |USVol=169 |USPage=649 |Citation=18 S.Ct. 456; 42 L.Ed. 890 |Prior=Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California; 71 F. 382 |Subsequent= |Holding=Children born in the United States of foreigners permanently domiciled and resident in the U.S. at the time of birth automatically acquire U.S. citizenship via the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. |Majority=Gray |JoinMajority=Brewer, Brown, Shiras, White, Peckham |Dissent=Fuller |JoinDissent=Harlan |NotParticipating=McKenna |LawsApplied=[[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|U.S. Const. amend. XIV]] }} {{wikisource}} '''''United States v. Wong Kim Ark''''', {{ussc|169|649|1898}}, is a [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] case in which the Court ruled that a child born in the [[United States]] to parents of [[Chinese people|Chinese]] [[descent]] automatically becomes a [[Citizenship in the United States|U.S. citizen]] by birth based on the [[Citizenship Clause]] in the [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]].<ref name=usv.wkaCRF>{{cite web |url=http://crfimmigrationed.org/index.php/supreme-court-summaries/united-states-v-wong-kim-ark |title=United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) |publisher=Constitutional Rights Foundation |access-date=15 April 2016 |archive-date=7 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407202630/http://crfimmigrationed.org/index.php/supreme-court-summaries/united-states-v-wong-kim-ark |url-status=dead }}</ref> == Background == Wong Kim Ark was born in [[San Francisco, California]] in 1873 to parents who were Chinese [[immigrant]]s and who remained the [[wikt:subject|subject]]s of the [[Emperor of China]].<ref name=usv.wkaCRF/> Ark had lived in [[California]] ever since