Republicans have introduced a bill that would strip automatic citizenship rights from children born in four U.S. territories.
  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Interesting that the US citizens who live there don’t get any say in this, isn’t it? They don’t send any representatives to Congress, yet they pay taxes. Didn’t the founders have a direct opinion on that?

    I would be in favor of all US citizens who do not reside in a State getting their own representation. Give them one Rep and two Senators, just like Wyoming. (Or, if you want to reinforce their non-State-ness, give them just one Senator, which would make the VP’s tie breaking vote meaningless if the Senate is at full attendance).

    This would also solve the representation problem with US ex-pats, who are technically represented from the last address they lived at in the US, but are not actually counted in the Census, so their representation isnt included in apportionment.

    Think of the frequent flier miles that Rep would rack up to go back and forth from the USVI to Guam and back…

  • Bwaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    So those people would become citizens of …what? Of a territory? Doe a territory issue passports?