Rosario Santillan Valmonte v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is a petition for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals upholding an immigration judge’s decision to deny petitioner’s application for suspension of deportation and order petitioner deported to her native Philippine Islands (Philippines). The issue on appeal is whether petitioner’s birth in the Philippines while that country was a United States territory confers on her United States citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. We conclude that it does not and we deny the petition.

BACKGROUND

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Petitioner Rosario' Santillan Valmonte was born- in the…