Who is a United States citizen by birth? For generations, the U.S. government has abided by a policy of treating essentially every child born on U.S. soil as a U.S. citizen, a policy known colloquially as universal birthright citizenship.
A Facebook post claims the founder of Timberland was a slave owner who would hang his slaves from a tree on his Mississippi property, which later became the symbol for the popular boot company. This is false; Timberland boots were created in the 1970s by a Russian immigrant who bought a shoe company in Massachusetts, the company's history shows.