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<p>Unique among non-state U.S. territories, people born in American Samoa are not granted citizenship by birth. This legal anomaly traces back to the acquisition of Pacific islands from Spain in a climate of American imperialism and white supremacy. </p>
The Biden administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pass over the opportunity to overrule a series of century-old rulings called Insular Cases.