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To: Cboldt

So Puerto Rico isn’t the jurisdiction of the United States of America?


106 posted on 03/09/2016 9:22:47 AM PST by PJBankard (I wouldn't let Obama or Hillary run my Dairy Queen - Wayne Allen Root)
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To: PJBankard
-- So Puerto Rico isn't the jurisdiction of the United States of America? --

It is, as much as Guam, the Virgin Islands, and Panama Canal Zone are. Persons born in those locales are made US citizens solely by the operation of statute. Person born there are not considered "born in the US."

113 posted on 03/09/2016 10:01:10 AM PST by Cboldt
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