Ramteen Arablui
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 13 Aug
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Throughline · The blatant betrayal that erased the Tupperware queen from history · 13 Aug 2026
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Wayland, it seems like everything is being called a recession indicator these days.
Or the new Apple Neo book.
There is
November twelfth, nineteen fifty seven.
Dear Brownie.
I hate to be critical, but I thought you followed my thinking about the use of Tupperware for a dog feeding dish.
bad
Don't you
Naveed Marvi, Show Fujiwara,
We're looking back at the story of Wong Kim Ark, a man whose legal battle shaped who gets to be an American citizen. In August of 1895, Wong Kim Ark was sitting on a steamship, detained and watched over by guards. He was there because, according to the government, he was not a U.S. citizen, even though he had documentation showing he was born in San Francisco.
It must have been a lonely, bitter feeling to be just a few miles from his hometown, rejected by his own government. But he wasn't alone. Almost immediately, a group of people started working to get him out.
This is Amanda Frost, professor of immigration law and author of You Are Not American, Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers.
The Chinese Six Companies, also known as the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association.
They frequently hired lawyers, white lawyers, to help Chinese laborers who were subject to deportation under the law.
So while Wong Kim Ark sat imprisoned on the steamship, his case headed to a California district court.
the district court was faced with a monumental decision, one that hinged on a single sentence in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
The 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution after the Civil War to achieve, quote, equal protection of the laws. It was intended to make sure newly emancipated Black Americans had full, equal citizenship and rights. Some of the most impactful Supreme Court cases have hinged on this amendment. There's Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld the constitutionality of segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education, which reversed that. Even Roe vs. Wade, which guaranteed the right to abortion. Wong Kim Ark's case focused on a specific part of the 14th Amendment, the Citizenship Clause.
That phrase, jurisdiction thereof, it's key because the court had to decide what makes a person a U.S. citizen. Do all people born on U.S. soil fall under its jurisdiction, its laws? Or is jurisdiction about where your loyalties lie? Are Chinese people living in the United States really subject to U.S. laws? Or should they be considered subjects of the emperor of China?
And then, what does this legal argument mean for all immigrants across the country? Could this same logic be applied to birthright citizens from Europe?
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