Guam attorney: White House opposes birthright citizenship
by Ken Quintanilla
Guam - A few months after current and former island leaders filed amicus briefs in the landmark DC Circuit case about birthright citizenship in US territories, the Obama Administration filed its own brief this week arguing that Americans born in US territories have no constitutional right to citizenship.
In a release from former Guam resident and the president of non-profit group "We the People" Attorney Neil Weare, he says the Obama Administration relied on the insular cases to defend a federal statute that "expressly creates two classes of American nationals - those who enjoy the protections of US citizenship and those who do not."
Weare was the lead counsel on the Tuaua v. United States case which claimed that the Constitution guarantees people born in US territories the right to US citizenship by birth. Today he says, "it's hard to believe in the 21st Century the Obama Administration is defending two separate classes of Americans."
Meanwhile it was just last month when Weare indicated he would be filing a new federal lawsuit as part of "We the People" regarding the right to vote in US territories specifically whether the right of a US citizen to vote for president be based on where you live.
