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Pillar one: Who you are. March twenty-eighth, eighteen ninety-eight. San Francisco. A man named Wong Kim Ark returns home from a visit to China. He was born in America. He lives in America. But when he steps off the boat… customs stops him. They say he is an alien. They say he does not belong. The case goes to the Supreme Court. The government argues that blood defines citizenship. Wong Kim Ark argues that the ground defines citizenship. On this day… the court rules. Six to two. Birthright citiz