[morphing libertarian]

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/06/american-samoa-the-only-place-in-the-u-s-where-citizenship-isn-t-granted-at-birth.html

June 5 2015

After an Appeals Court ruling on Friday, American Samoa remains the only place in the United States where U.S. citizenship is not granted at birth.

As my colleague Mark Joseph Stern explained recently, anyone born in the other four unincorporated U.S. territories—Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—automatically becomes a citizen. But things work differently in American Samoa, a group of islands 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. Samoans can only claim citizenship if they have a parent who was a citizen; otherwise, they have to go through the same naturalization process of non-Americans.

[Personal Responsibility]

“Her mother, who was born in Decatur, Indiana,”
“Samoans can only claim citizenship if they have a parent who was a citizen”

What am I missing? Was her mother born on US soil to foreign nationals?

[Ann Archy]

Her mother was born in Indiana, so she is eligible.