On page 9 of The San Francisco Call newspaper on 08 Feb 1896, there on the upper left corner is an article about the supreme court case of "UNITED STATES v. WONG KIM ARK". Despite the results of the court ruling was not taken seriously by the public in the sense it was not widely debated or publicize by the media as seen in the newspaper, its results had a lasting effect to this day. For one thing, the "UNITED STATES v. WONG KIM ARK" court case was influential in that it established the ground for many immigrants to testify the legitimacy of their children's legal citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment and allow thousands up to millions of people to be formally recognized as United States citizens. However, it is also being challenged in recent times as President Tramp believes that such a ruling is causing problems in the United States as people from around the world were coming into the United States through illegal means to secure a United States citizenship for their children(Barbash, 2018). On the contrary, the recent challenges of this court ruling are not taking into consideration the fact that Wong Kim Ark's parents were legal "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" the United States, while the parents of “anchor babies” were not (Barbash, 2018).
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