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Doesn't "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" just mean colonies are included?

If you're not part of the USA but you're subject to are juri...
Rough-skinned mint community account
  12/08/25
You're ESL?
crimson motley cruise ship
  12/08/25
Think it was meant to exclude the Indians mostly. They were...
awkward racy bawdyhouse
  12/08/25
I'm sure that was the original intent, but I think we've bee...
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  12/08/25
Jesus, the Jones Act
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  12/08/25
Don't we just give citizenship to anyone born anywhere nomin...
Rough-skinned mint community account
  12/08/25
No, Puerto Rican citizenship is by statute American Samo...
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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:36 PM
Author: Rough-skinned mint community account

If you're not part of the USA but you're subject to are jurisdiction, doesn't that just mean you're like Cuba or Guam? Isn't that why we gave citizenship to people born in Panama?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808150&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310911#49495414)



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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:40 PM
Author: crimson motley cruise ship

You're ESL?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808150&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310911#49495422)



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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:38 PM
Author: awkward racy bawdyhouse

Think it was meant to exclude the Indians mostly. They were granted citizenship only later, in 1924.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808150&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310911#49495416)



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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:41 PM
Author: Rough-skinned mint community account

I'm sure that was the original intent, but I think we've been giving citizenship to Puerto Ricans all this time based on the premise that the 14th Amendment mandates it. Indians only got citizenship through an act of Congress, but Puerto Ricans got it straight out of the 14th Amendment, I believe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808150&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310911#49495426)



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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:44 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good Painfully Honest Factory Reset Button Chapel

Jesus, the Jones Act

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808150&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310911#49495440)



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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:48 PM
Author: Rough-skinned mint community account

Don't we just give citizenship to anyone born anywhere nominally controlled by the US govt, like an air force base in Okinawa? SCOTUS said we have to give due process to gitmo detainees just because we control gitmo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808150&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310911#49495446)



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Date: December 8th, 2025 9:53 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good Painfully Honest Factory Reset Button Chapel

No, Puerto Rican citizenship is by statute

American Samoans are us nationals it citizens

Military bases are just going to be based on citizenship of parent. I suppose you could have a weird hypo where you have non citizen in US army who gives birth on foreign base, kid could potentially be stateless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808150&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310911#49495464)