re: #151 HappyWarrior

the background of the case is actually interesting… Wong was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants. He traveled to China a few times, and then the last time he tried to return home, he was denied entry under the Chinese Exclusion Act (a law that forbid the immigration of Chinese people to the US). The argument was that even though he was born in the United States, his parents were Chinese subjects and therefore he wasn’t a US citizen. The Supreme Court said that he was under the 14th Amendment. So, yeah, everything the nativists have been arguing the last few years was decided almost 120 years ago.