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Blake Bradford
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#UnitedMethodist pastor and coauthor of the “Mission Possible” series. Serving the local church and consulting after almost a decade as an Arkansas UMC district superintendent and staff member
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The right of those born on US soil to citizenship were affirmed by the 1898 Supreme Court battle of Wong Kim Ark—a Chinese American born here during this nation’s decades of anti-Chinese exclusion—to be recognized as a citizen.

Trump seeks to destroy Wong’s legacy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m...
el 430 But its relevance to immigration policy remained open to debate until the Supreme Court decided the case of Wong Kim Ark in 1898. At the time, Chinese immigrants were explicitly banned from becoming American citizens. But when asked if a man born to Chinese immigrants in California could claim citizenship, the Supreme Court ruled he could — because he was born on American soil. To decide otherwise, Justice Horace Gray noted in the majority opinion, "would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German or other European parentage, who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the United States."
January 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM