APNewsBreak: American Samoans sue for birthright citizenship
HONOLULU (AP) " Meet John Fitisemanu, who works for a lab company in Utah, and has paid U.S. taxes and been subject to American laws his whole life. But the 53-year-old father and husband isn't considered a U.S. citizen by the federal government, because he was born in American Samoa, a U.S. territory and the only place in the country without automatic claim to citizenship. Now, he's suing to be recognized as an American.Fitisemanu is the lead plaintiff on a lawsuit filed Tuesday on [...]
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