“Fine cut them lose and all future Puerto Ricans are NOT Americans.”
You cannot do that either as you count strip someone of their citizenship.
But if you could do that, when ever a Puerto Rican had a baby, that baby would be a US citizen by virtue or their parent being a United States citizen.
“They are statutory citizens(granted by Congress), rather than Constitutional citizens as they were granted this status in 1917 under the Jones-Shafroth act. Therefore as they are not guaranteed Constitutional Citizenship they can be cut lose.”
That is absolute nonsense.
Fine, you don’t agree. However I don’t believe that they get to choose to be a state and we don’t have any say in the matter. As to citizenship, having been born and raised in New York City where there is a huge Puerto Rican population, I can say that the vast majority of them identify as Puerto Ricans first and so I am saying that they can be cut loose and future generations of Puerto Ricans can be treated as any other nationality.
If you told Puerto Ricans that their US Citizenship would be taken away, there’d be nobody left on the island.