31. Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic
Story of America’s Great Migration 8-9 (2010).
32. Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic
Story of America’s Great Migration 38 (2010).
33. Rachel E. Rosenbloom, The Citizenship Line:
Rethinking Immigration Exceptionalism, 54 B.C.L. Rev.
1695, 1993 (2013) (“U.S. citizenship opened up across
racial lines at virtually the same time that the border
started closing in racially specific ways.”). Jared A.
Goldstein, Unfit for the Constitution: Nativism and the
Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to Donald Trump,
20 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 489, 506 (2018) (citing statement of
Sen. Jones in 1882, 13 Cong. Rec. 1742, “Free institutions
are only possible with the favored races. …[N]o other race
is capable of treading freedom’s heights with firm and
unwavering step.”).
34. David Scott FitzGerald, The History of Racialized
Citizenship, in Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Baubock, Irene
Bloemraad, and Maarten Vink, eds., The Oxford Handbook
of Citizenship 131 (2017); Jared A. Goldstein, Unfit for the
Constitution: Nativism and the Constitution, from the
Founding Fathers to Donald Trump, 20 U. Pa. J. Const.
L. 489, 504 (2018) (“These dual requirement for
naturalized citizenship—commitment to constitutional
principles and membership in the white race—persisted,
with relatively few changes, until 1952, when Congress
finally repealed any racial criteria for citizenship.”).
35. David Scott FitzGerald, The History of Racialized
Citizenship, in Ayelet Shachar, Rainer Baubock, Irene
Bloemraad, and Maarten Vink, eds., The Oxford Handbook
of Citizenship 138 (2017) (citing Ian Haney-Lopez, White by
Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1996)).
36. Beatrice McKenzie, To Know a Citizen: Birthright
Citizenship Documents Regimes in U.S. History, in Benjamin
N. Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, eds., Citizenship in
Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness 117-131
(2016).
37. John C. Torpey, The Invention of the Passport:
Surveillance, Ctizienship and the State 118-120 (2d ed. 2018);
Rachel E. Rosenbloom, The Citizenship Line: Rethinking
Immigration Exceptionalism, 54 B.C.L. Rev. 1695 (2013).
38. Jared A. Goldstein, Unfit for the Constitution:
Nativism and the Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to
Donald Trump, 20 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 489, 504 (2018).
39. Id. at 525.
40. Id. at n.219.
41. Id. at 529.
42. Adolf Hitler, Second Book (1928).
43. See Juan R. Torruella, Ruling America’s Colonies: The
Insular Cases, 32 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 57 (2013). The other
major unincorporated territories are Guam, American
164
Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. See USCIS, U.S. Territories (Mar. 27, 2018), https://
www.uscis.gov/tools/glossary/us-territories. According to
USCIS, “A U.S. territory is a partially self-governing piece
of land under the authority of the U.S. government. U.S.
territories are not states, but they do have representation
in Congress. Each territory is allowed to send a delegate to
the House of Representatives. The people who live in
American Samoa are considered U.S. nationals; the people
in the other four territories are U.S. citizens. Citizens of
the territories can vote in primary elections for president,
but they cannot vote in the general elections for president.” Id.
44. See, e.g., Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901).
45. Id. at 286–87.
46. See Brief for the Scholars of International Law as
Amicus Curiae, Tuaua v. United States, 788 F.3d 300, at 6,
(2015), https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/
uploads/2016/06/15-981-Scholars-of-International-LawAmicus-Brief.pdf.
47. United States Department of Interior, Office of
Insular Affairs, Definitions of Insular Area Political
Organizations, https://www.doi.gov/oia/islands/
politicatypes.
48. In a series of tweets on April 2, 2019, for example,
President Trump disparaged Puerto Rico in connection
with disaster relief aid, suggesting he considers (erroneously) Puerto Rico is not part of the United States.
49. See Aaron Steckelberg and Chiqui Esteban, More than
4 million Americans don’t have anyone to vote for them in
Congress, The Washington Post (Sept. 28 2017), https://
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/national/
fair-representation/?utm_term=.845a8339d35f (estimating
the total 2017 population of U.S. territories at 4.4 million,
based on figures from U.S. Census Bureau).
50. James Q. Whitman, Hitler’s American Model: The
United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law 4-5 (2017).
51. Jared A. Goldstein, Unfit for the Constitution:
Nativism and the Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to
Donald Trump, 20 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 489, 495 (2018).
52. See Alex Ross, The Hitler Vortex: How American racism
influenced Nazi thought, The New Yorker (April 30, 2018),
at 72.
53. Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina D. Manta, (Un)
Civil Denaturalization, 94 New York University Law
Review 402, 427 (2019), https://www.nyulawreview.org/
wp-content/uploads/2019/06/NYULawReview-94-3-RobertsonMantapdf.pdf.
54. Id.
55. See Eric L. Muller, Japanese American Cases – A Bigger
Disaster Than We Realized, 49 How. L. J. 417, 455 (2006).
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