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The Empire Strikes Back: The Trump Administration's Crusade to Rescind Citizenship in U.S. Territories

The Trump administration and its allies in Congress are actively maneuvering to strip birthright citizenship from U.S. territories like Puerto Rico and Guam, relying on racist legal relics like the Insular Cases to justify this new colonial assault. This naked act of imperial disenfranchisement reveals the enduring hypocrisy of the American project, treating nearly four million people as second-class subjects to be used and discarded.