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BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

LOCAL FILM MAKERS
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The thoughts and opinions of community members, specifically US Nationals of Samoan descent, 18 years and older on the issue of American Samoa’s birthright citizenship, are being sought by two local filmmakers in an on-line application which goes ‘live’ starting today,...
Tapa’au Dr. Daniel Aga and others
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s unique relationship with the United States has attracted interest from law students at Georgetown University in the U.S and resulted in an invitation for Tapaau Dr. Dan Aga, director of the ASG Office of Political Status, Constitutional Review and...
Tapaau Dan Aga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A move to bar US citizenship to American Samoans is being seen regionally as a blow to the territory and its people. But as Finau Fonua reports for RNZ Pacific, “many people are happy with the status quo.” After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review federal laws that...
Dear Editor:  Your October 19th, page one story on the Fitisemanu court case quotes attorney Charles V. Ala'ilima as saying the Supreme Court “has yet again left unresolved the question of whether people born in American Samoa are U.S. citizens."  No it hasn't.    When the U.S. Supreme Court...
Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomes news on Monday that the Supreme Court of the United States did not take up the Fitisemanu case, allowing the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to stand and in essence confirming the prior Tuaua case in the DC Court of Appeals...
John Fitisemanu
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S Supreme Court yesterday denied a request by three individuals born in American Samoa and residing in Utah, to review a decision by the majority of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that citizenship birth on U.S. soil is not applicable to those...
U.S. Supreme Court building
Washington, D.C. — National media is reporting the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declines to take up the Amerian Samoa birthright citizenship case. The court’s decision to stay out of the matter comes as a disappointment to many who wanted the justices to take the case and overturn a series...
U.S. Supreme Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S Justice Department, representing the federal government, contends that the Petition for a Writ of Certiorari filed by three individuals born in American Samoa and residing in Utah, to review a U.S citizenship decision by a federal appeal’s court “should be denied...
U.S. Supreme Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Government and Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata have argued that the citizenship issue pertaining to persons born in American Samoa, is “an exceptionally poor vehicle for reconsidering the Insular Cases”, and should wait for a case that actually requires...
U.S. Supreme Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a 44-page response filed yesterday, the American Samoa Government and Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata, asked the U.S Supreme Court to deny a request by three American Samoans living in the Salt Lake City, Utah to review a decision by the majority of the U.S. Tenth...

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