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1) Petitioner Ricardo Manlapaz Lacap, who was born in the Philippines in 1951 and entered the United States illegally in 1991, was subject to deportation proceedings. 2) Lacap argued that he should not be deported because his parents were born in the Philippines when it was a U.S. territory, and thus he derived citizenship from them under the 14th Amendment. 3) However, the Ninth Circuit and Second Circuit had previously held that people born in the Philippines during the territorial period were not bor

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