alt Hacker NewsThis is why American Samoans aren't citizens. They aren't subject to the full jurisdiction of the USA even though they are born in the United States.
Yet you rarely find anyone giving a shit about the American Samoans, you never hear about it.
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>American Samoans aren't citizens because American Samoa is a territory, not a state. Puerto Rico has a special status that was extended to it to grant its residents citizenship – this isn't a status that's automatically granted to all territories, it requires Federal approval which AS has never formally pushed for.
Unless you falsely believe PR or AS are not part of the United States, you are just agreeing with me with extra words regarding the jurisdictional differences. The only option for denying birthright citizenship would be not born in United States, or not subject to jurisdiction thereof.
See this excellent prior comment[] on why the difference between PR and AS is jurisdiction and not whether it is part of the US.
>This seems entirely subjective.
I'm not going to do a formal academic study with you, it's plainly obvious as of late you see far more headlines on hackernews (a search shows a single HN topic on AS citizenship in the history of HN, but full page+ of search results on the birthright citizenship issue at hand) and elsewhere regarding the birthright citizenship issue at hand and far more rarely the fact American Samoans don't get it.
American Samoans aren't citizens because American Samoa is a territory, not a state. Puerto Rico has a special status that was extended to it to grant its residents citizenship – this isn't a status that's automatically granted to all territories, it requires Federal approval which AS has never formally pushed for.
> Yet you rarely find anyone giving a shit about the American Samoans, you never hear about it.
This seems entirely subjective.