Great-grandson of the man who established birthright citizenship slams Trump's new executive order
Source: NBC News
Jan. 21, 2025, 3:34 PM EST
The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark — whose landmark 1898 Supreme Court case helped establish a birthright citizenship for all children of immigrants — blasted President Donald Trump’s new executive order seeking to revoke the long-standing right.
Norman Wong, 74, who’s based in Brentwood, California, called Trump’s directive “troubling” and said it is a move intended to fracture Americans. The executive order, titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, limits birthright citizenship to people who have at least one parent who is a United States citizen or a permanent resident.
“He’s feeding off the American mindset, and it’s not a healthy one,” Wong told NBC News. “We can’t build the country together and be against everybody. I think the best thing to do is for Americans to actually be embracing Americans.”
The Trump transition team did not respond to NBC News’ request for comment.
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The U.S. Supreme Court held that "a child born in the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China", automatically became a U.S. citizen at birth.[6] This decision established an important precedent in its interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark
