Excuse me but we are natural born citizens and do pay taxes.
Cholos ought to speak English then.
No.
Puerto Rico IS NOT a state, merely an unincorporated territory where the U.S.Constitution does not apply. Congress can change the status of Puerto Rico. You have citizesnhip granted per Congress. See: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/86756.pdf
Natural born citizens are born in the United States to citizen parents, period (per the holding in Minor vs. Happersett (1874) - see note below.
Americans aren’t stupid; we aren’t going to give this status to an unincorporated territory, such as Puerto Rico, which has repeatedly refused to join the United States union!
Yes, you pay taxes; U.S. business interests get tax breaks.
NOTE: MINOR v. HAPPERSETT the only time the US Supreme Court ever did define the class of persons who were POTUS eligible under Article 2 Section 1, clause 5 (U.S.Constitution) was in Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), wherein it was held:
“The Constitution does not, in words, say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common-law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.” Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162, 168.
There it is, it really exists. And it tells you exactly who are natural-born citizens; those born in the country of parents who are citizens. The words are plain-spoken and self-evident. There are two classes of persons discussed in the above quotation. Those born in the country of citizen parents were labeled by the Court as “natives or natural-born citizens”, but these were also further identified as being “distinguished from aliens or foreigners”. The distinction is crucial.