[SeekAndFind]

RE: Okay, hard to argue about Puerto Rico—give them independence or make them a state.

Why not give them independence?

[Verginius Rufus]

It seems that only a small percentage of Puerto Ricans want to have independence. (Some leftists will claim that that is because a genuinely free election can't take place while they are under US control and they really do want independence.)

I think in most referenda, except the most recent one, the commonwealth option slightly outpolled the statehood option (neither having 50%), and the last referendum had the options manipulated to favor statehood.

[Reno89519]

I’d be fine with that as I’d suggest that they must adopt English if they were to become a state. With independence, we’d have to give Puerto Ricans in US continued citizenship and those in Puerto Rico would lose it.