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Right wing seeks to overturn historic Civil Rights case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark

The following commentary by Masao Suzuki is from Fight Back! News:

In 1898, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark that American-born Chinese were U.S. citizens under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

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