They were born on U.S. soil, are entitled to U.S. passports and allowed to serve in the U.S. military, but 11 people in a small Alaska town are facing criminal charges after they tried to participate in a fundamental part of American democracy: voting.
  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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    27 days ago

    Whats especially fucked is that a federal judge ruled their lack of citizenship unconstitutional many years ago, but it was overturned.

    Just give these folks citizenship already. Its insane

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      27 days ago

      There is an interesting Radio Lab episode about this. There is/was actually a large part of the population who don’t want citizenship. If they did that then the constitution would have to apply to the island, and a few parts of it apparently clash with their heritage. I can’t remember all of it, it’s complicated but I remember the episode was interesting.

      https://radiolab.org/podcast/americanish