[Procyon]

Puerto Rico is not going to be allowed to decide which federal laws apply to them. That would give Puerto Rico rights denied to the several states.

Puerto Rico has only three choices: status quo, statehood or independence.

[Ebenezer]

Puerto Rico has only three choices: status quo, statehood or independence.

A more sensible approach is to abandon the status-quo crutch altogether and make Puerto Ricans decide between statehood or independence. As long as the Commonwealth is kept as a viable status option, the island will not make a mature decision as to its political relationship with the United States.