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Given reporter Julia Longoria\\u2019s long love affair with the Supreme Court, it\\u2019s no surprise she\\u2019s become the new host of More Perfect (https://zpr.io/4R9fMg9gJ96k), a show all about how the Supreme Court got to be so\\u2026 supreme. This week, we talk to Julia about her journey to the host seat, and we highlight an episode she produced for Radiolab in 2019 about a specific case: Gonz\\xe1lez v. Williams.\\xa0

In 1903 the U.S. Supreme Court refused to say that Isabel Gonz\\xe1lez was a citizen of the United States. Then again, they said, she wasn\\u2019t exactly an immigrant either. And they said that the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, Isabel\\u2019s home, was \\u201cforeign to the United States in a domestic sense.\\u201d Since then, the U.S. has cleared up at least some of the confusion about U.S. territories and the status of people born in them.

But, more than a hundred years later, there is still a U.S. territory that has been left in limbo: American Samoa. It is the only place on Earth that is U.S. soil, but people who are born there are not automatically U.S. citizens. When we visit American Samoa, we discover that there are some pretty surprising reasons why many American Samoans prefer it that way.\\xa0

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Reported by - Julia Longoria

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