by Amy Goodman | Jul 24, 2026 | Austerity, birth tourism, Birthright Citizenship, Discrimination, immigration, Interview, PROMESA, Puerto Rico, Supreme Court, US Territories
After failing to overturn birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, Republican legislators are turning to new tactics to disenfranchise people born on U.S. soil. Their latest targets are those born to noncitizen or permanent resident parents in U.S. territories like Puerto Rico, where the Supreme Court has said citizenship is granted by statute and full constitutional protections do not apply.
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by Anita Hofschneider | Mar 20, 2026 | Andersen Air Force Base, CHamoru people, Colonialism, Department of Defense, Drinking Water, Guam, Indigenous Rights, Militarism, National Environmental Policy Act, NEPA, News, Supreme Court, US militarism, US Military, US Territories
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine the future of a beach with cultural and ecological importance to the Indigenous CHamoru people of Guam. The case is an appeal from the U.S. Air Force, which wants to continue the open detonation of obsolete munitions on Tarague Beach in northern Guam — a site located directly above the sole-source aquifer providing 80 percent of…
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