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To: ConservativeStatement

Lost track with all their on and off becoming a USA 51st state. Are Puerto Ricans actually US citizens? The last I knew, they are a territory of the US. Do they have the same rights as a US citizen? That said, they need our help - without implied threats.


9 posted on 09/26/2017 7:01:45 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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To: A Navy Vet

If this is accurate (someone can correct if this is cited wrong):

All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, residing on January 13, 1941, in Puerto Rico or other territory over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, are declared to be citizens of the United States as of January 13, 1941. All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States at birth.


13 posted on 09/26/2017 7:23:23 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("Silence is violence.")
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