Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.
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Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.
We should have forced Puerto Rico to make a choice years ago; become a state or become a completely independent nation.
Why is that a problem? Seems like ALL of Puerto Rico would be federal territory. Is it a Constitution thingy?......................
Says more about our crappy education system then Americans. You won’t hear liberals saying that though.
More importantly, how about their neighbors.
It should be given its independence.
Puerto Ricans are American citizens and they have all the duties and rights of Americans.
Which is why their indebtedness is ours.
Everywhere else, American citizens are also natives of a state. I can understand the confusion. Thank Woodrow Wilson for that on. I wouldn’t be against making Puerto Rico a state but it’s like buying a car with a blown engine. It will take more money just to get it running right.
I reported to a VP once who insisted that Puerto Rico was a foreign country. She was raised in Brooklyn, you’d think of all people she’d know, but no.
Wait a minute. It depends on WHEN you were born in Puerto Rico whether or not you would be a “natural born citizen”. I forget the details, but this was one, of many, exceptions to being born in a territory or possession of the United States and NOT being a “natural born citizen”.
That is why I always say that in order for there to be absolutely NO DOUBT of your being born on U.S. soil, you must be born in the contiguous 48 states.
Alaska and Hawaii are too new as states (a presidential candidate today could have been born there while they were still territories) and territories and possessions have many different rules and laws when it comes to citizenship. Not that you CAN’T be a “natural born citizen”, but you MIGHT NOT be one.
Don’t argue with me, LOOK IT UP, I did.
p.s. A “natural born citizen” is:
Born on United States “SOIL” to TWO citizen parents.
Not on a ship, not in an airplane, not in an embassy overseas, not to citizen parents overseas, not in Canada, not in Kenya.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States is “natural law”. It is not a law of Congress to be changed by Congress. It can only be changed by a constitutional amendment or as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Until such time, the definition above STANDS. (in my not so humble opinion, which I believe was the will and belief of the founders and framers of this country).