Wong Kim Ark was born and raised in the United States, where his parents owned a permanent residence and store at 751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco. From his birth, he only had one place to stay at and that was in California, the United States. Furthermore, either did he or his parents in his place did renounce his allegiance to the United States. However, when he entered the United States in 1895 at the Port of San Francisco, he was denied entry into the same city that he was born in because of "The new administration tacitly agreed when it ruled that someone of Chinese parents born in the United States was a subject of China, not a citizen of the United States" (Thomas, 2010).
Wong Kim Ark was only an example of many. While some of these people were sent back to China on the round ticket that they were forced to buy by the steamship company just in case they were denied to enter, others were kept at facilities on San Francisco Wharf.
Work Cited
Citizenship [Video file]. Retrieved October 4, 2020, from Kanopy. https://purdue.kanopy.com/playlist/378649
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Thomas, Brook. "The Legal and Literary Complexities of U.S. Citizenship Around 1900." Law & Literature 22.2 (2010): 307-24. Web. https://purdue-primo-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1c3q7im/T...
UNITED STATES v. WONG KIM ARK. Supreme Court of United States. 169 U.S. 649 (1898). https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/169/649