Not to be argumentative but you may not have read my complete post. What I am suggesting is after cutting Puerto Rico lose, i.e. they become their own country then FUTURE generations of Puerto Ricans will be citizens of Puerto Rico solely and NOT citizens of the United States therefore they won’t be stripping Puerto Ricans of any US citizenship as they won’t have it to begin with. I believe the citizens of the US must ultimately have the final say over what countries can be part of the Union and I don’t believe that Puerto Rico can or should be allowed to vote itself statehood.
I read what you wrote.
The issue is that all people born in Puerto Rico are US citizens and their citizenship cannot be revoked.
Thus, if PR were to become independent, Puerto Ricans would still be US citizens.
That status of citizenship cannot be stripped from Puerto Ricans.
If U.S. citizenship is never stripped, each person born to a Puerto Rican, will also be a U.S. citizen.
The US Congress would have to approve statehood and the president would have to sign the legislation.