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Trump's Second Term

GlennB said:
Google says :

People born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands are automatic U.S. citizens by birth. The only major U.S. territory where people are not automatic citizens is American Samoa, where residents are born as U.S. nationals instead.
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Specific laws were passed to allow those resident in those territories to be granted US citizenship. They don't have birthright citizenship under the constitution. If Greenland became a US territory, the residents wouldn't become US citizens (they would if it became a US state) see Downes vs. Bidwell below. Historically there was even doubt if residents of DC (not a state) were entitled to birthright citizenship.

By the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898, the United States gained sovereignty over Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam. Between 1900 and 1904, the United States acquired the islands of American Samoa. And the United States purchased the now-U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. With these new acquisitions, multiple questions arose about the integration of these territories into the political fabric of the nation.
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In 1901, in Downes v. Bidwell, the Court created a new way to categorize the territories. They were either designated to be on a path to statehood (“incorporated”) or destined to remain territorial possessions (“unincorporated”). During this period, explicit racial restrictions on immigration and naturalization were in place and made Asian immigrants racially ineligible for citizenship. The Court’s division of territories into an incorporated/unincorporated dichotomy drew on these underlying prejudices in creating exclusionary policy. For example, in Downes the Court expressed doubt that “possessions ... inhabited by alien races, differing from us in religion, customs, laws, methods of taxation and modes of thought” could share in the administration of government.
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What would happen if the United States were to “discover an unknown island, peopled with an uncivilized race, yet rich in soil, and valuable to the United States for commercial and strategic reasons”? White argued that the United States would have “the right to ratify such acquisition.” But he worried notably that if the United States were required to “endow the inhabitants with citizenship of the United States” it would inflict a “grave detriment on the United States” arising from the “immediate bestowal of citizenship on those absolutely unfit to receive it.”

Additionally, in Gonzales v. Williams in 1904, the Court had the opportunity to consider citizenship for individuals born in the territories, but it dodged the question of whether the territories were covered by the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case arose when Isabel González, 20 years old and pregnant, traveled from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Ellis Island, New York. She was initially denied entry as an “alien immigrant ... likely to become a public charge.” The Court held that González was not an “alien,” since as a resident of Puerto Rico her “permanent allegiance is due to the United States.” But even though the Court held that she could not be excluded from the United States, it did not go so far as to hold that she was a citizen. Instead, the Court allowed residents of unincorporated U.S. territories to be treated as U.S. “nationals,” rather than as citizens. As nationals, residents of the territories would have the right to freely travel throughout the United States and to travel abroad using a U.S. passport. The question of constitutional citizenship, however, remained unanswered.

In later years, Congress intervened. During the first half of the 20th century, federal legislation made residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands U.S. citizens. The Northern Mariana Islands formally became a U.S. commonwealth in 1986. Congress also formally enshrined the Supreme Court’s recognition of “national” status in legislation. The Philippines—whose people retained “national” status during its time as a territory—was granted full independence from the United States in 1946. Today, only the residents of American Samoa have not been granted statutory citizenship and are legally considered to be noncitizen nationals.
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Constitutional Citizenship in the U.S. Territories

Withholding the constitutional right to American citizenship from people born in the U.S. territories makes as little sense as withholding citizenship from those
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GlennB said:
Google says :

People born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands are automatic U.S. citizens by birth. The only major U.S. territory where people are not automatic citizens is American Samoa, where residents are born as U.S. nationals instead.
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By automatic I meant constitutionally; bad phrasing.
 
Hans said:
George Washington was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 meters) some sources say, maybe 6'3"
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Over the age of 40 men tend to lose 0.25 inch per decade so he'd be about 5 feet shorter* by now! So we'd expect Washington to look up to Trump.

*You could argue if he has spent most of the last 200 hundred years laying flat his height loss would be less, but then he'd have atrophy of his legs and one wouldn't expect him to be standing without support.

We might be overthinking this?
 
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio:
“In my work with heads of state and foreign ministers, I am frequently hosted in reception facilities that are visually impressive and reflective of the wealth and beauty of the nations I am visiting.
In the United States, by contrast, we currently lack the ability to hold large events of a similar magnitude on White House grounds for those same heads of state and foreign dignitaries. Instead, we must currently host such visits in plastic or canvas tents on the South Lawn with unsafe and unsanitary portable bathrooms and accommodations unbecoming of our national stature.
Our foreign counterparts offer premier security arrangements for United States officials. It is imperative that we not only offer the same level of elite security services, but offer the world’s leading capabilities in an efficient manner on grounds over which we exert permanent control.
We must obviously seek every reasonable means to mitigate both the more predictable risks, including weather and physical incursions, but also emerging threats.
The East Wing Project is essential to that defensive security posture. The Project is absolutely critical not only for the physical safety of guests, but also for advancing our diplomatic relations and the interests and standing of the United States in the world.”
 
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Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
“I declare there is a valid military requirement for a secure, state-of-the-art facility that provides for the physical protection of the President and the command, control, and communication capabilities necessary for the President to carry out his Commander-in-Chief responsibilities over the United States Armed Forces anywhere across the globe at any time.”

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Jay Clayton, Director of National Intelligence:
“The Project is critical for ensuring the White House can serve as a secure location for the gathering of the President, gathering of senior government officials, and gatherings that further the interests of the United States.
The Project on the Complex also will improve the level of protection and ability to manage and mitigate threats to the President and senior government officials and will enhance the handling, management, and utilization of IC information, including the conduct of IC-directed support to the Complex.”
 
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