Justice Gray Narration
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Birthright Citizenship
that to deny citizenship to one group would be to deny citizenship to thousands of persons of English, Scotch, Irish, German, and other European parentage who have always been considered and treated as citizens of the United States.
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Birthright Citizenship
It is conceded that if he is a citizen of the United States, the acts of Congress known as the Chinese Exclusion Acts, prohibiting persons of the Chinese race and especially Chinese laborers from coming into the United States, do not and cannot apply to him.
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Birthright Citizenship
The fact, therefore, that acts of Congress or treaties have not permitted Chinese persons born out of this country to become citizens by naturalization cannot exclude Chinese persons born in this country from the operation of the broad and clear words of the Constitution. All persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. Justice Gray.
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Birthright Citizenship
"...that ever since the birth of said Wong Kim Ark at the time and place herein before stated and stipulated, he has had but one residence, to wit, a residence in said state of California in the United States of America, and that he has never changed or lost said residence or gained or acquired another residence and there resided claiming to be a citizen of the United States."