The main issue of United States v. Wong Kim Ark was whether a person born in the U.S. to foreign-born parents automatically received citizenship based on the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Wong Kim Ark, an American-born cook of Chinese descent, was detained and threatened with deportation following an 1894 trip to visit his family in China.
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