Supreme Court rejects effort to grant American Samoans US citizenship at birth

[struggle4progress]

17 Jun 2016

WASHINGTON (CNN) — ... the Supreme Court on Monday ... declined to reconsider a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on those born in American Samoa. The Supreme Court’s move effectively preserves the appellate court’s decision in the case as the last word.

In the case, an American Samoan, Leneuoti Fia Fia Tuaua, petitioned the U.S. courts for citizenship under the clause of the Constitution that confers citizenship at birth to those born in the United States. American Samoa has been a U.S. territory since 1900.

Those born in the other U.S. territories — Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Marianas — all get citizenship at birth, but that was determined by statute in Congress. No such statue exists for American Samoa ...

http://www.mvariety.com/regional-news/87025-supreme-court-rejects-effort-to-grant-american-samoans-us-citizenship-at-birth

[Jake Stern]

1. Good.

Like the rest of our territories, AS wants to have it's cake and eat it too.

They don't pay federal taxes and, in some cases such as AS, set their own immigration policy yet they demand all the perks of citizenship. Americans of convenience.

Incorporate or cut 'em loose.