Puerto Rico would make a good penal colony.
You mean people who want to be associated with America should be either be treated badly or kicked out? What sort of logic is that?
Puerto Rico was way ahead of you with this idea.
Puerto Rico had a policy of offering its convicted criminals a plane ticket to the mainland United States, in lieu of jail time, until some cops in Dade County, Florida blew the whistle on them.
Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, all of Central America, South America and Puerto Rico have been having a contest to see who can empty out their jails onto the streets of the mainland United States for decades now.
I doubt they want their criminal element or their people of color back.
Puerto Rico has driven so many of its nonwhite residents off the island that the island is 80% white now according to the Census 2000.
There are towns in Puerto Rico that don't allow black people to drink out of their water fountains or eat in their cafeterias, because they believe black people are too dirty.
How's that for hypocritical?