[LovedSinner]

You are wrong there. Children born in US territories are US citizens. Technically Puerto Rico is a US commonwealth.

Puerto Ricans are US citizens. I am 100% certain of this.

[SatinDoll]

I said they are citizens.

It has been granted them by Congress. And yes, they are a Commonwealth.

But they are not a state and HAVE REPEATEDLY REJECTED JOINING THE UNITED STATES AS A STATE.

Citizens, yes; natural born citizens, no. Puerto Ricans cannot serve as President or VP.

[RegulatorCountry]

There have been cases wherein individuals born in US territories were determined not to possess all the rights of full citizens due to being not fully subject to US jurisdiction. See The Insular Cases.

There would also be the question of whether this man was born to citizen parents, and whether Puerto Rico itself is fully subject to the jurisdiction of the US.

Why does party leadership of both parties continue to flout this requirement? I can assure you that there are individuals whose status is not the least bit questionable under the strictest of interpretations, who would make a fine President or Vice President.

[Tanniker Smith]

Puerto Ricans are US citizens. I am 100% certain of this.

The question isn't US citizen. It's natural born citizen of the US.

[Scanian]

Yes-—since WWI.

But has there ever been an adjudication of NBC status for such people? I can’t find anything.