Puerto Ricans want to stay just where they are.
Local Puerto Ricans living in the US proper, want more.
Statehood will fail unless the 2 choice Progressive fix is in the ballot, and that would be a tragedy. It is THEIR choice to make once recognized by OUR CONGRESS.
A long and distinguished history of Military service to the United States, 65th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army etc.
The Hispanic vote is not monolithic. East coast vs West Coast vs Texas etc All are different and their political dreams are also very different. Boricquas are not Chicanos are not Cubanacanos are not Dominican Yorks. None speak true Castillian spanish.
They are our friends, or neighbors, our family.
Statehood should fail as few of us Americans want to absorb an entire Spanish-speaking, Third World country, whose inhabitants (on the island and on the mainland) have cost us taxpayers billions over the years. The Boricua on the mainland have a long history of being disproportionately on the dole (rather directly or via government jobs), and the island economy would die without subsidies and "tax credits" from Uncle Sugar.
I appreciate the military service of the minority of PRs who served in our wars, just as I appreciate that of the Filipinos and Guamanians who did the same. This does NOT justify putting America on track to join the Third World, economically, culturally, and politically.
If they DO have a vote, ONLY those on the island should vote, and they should have THREE choices.