People born in American Samoa, which has been held by the United States for more than 120 years, are not automatically citizens of the United States.
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Gorsuch Calls for Overruling ‘Shameful’ Cases on U.S. Territories
The justice urged his colleagues to revisit the Insular Cases, which denied full constitutional protection to unincorporated territories. A petition filed last week gives them a chance.