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Every Puerto Rican is an American citizen. Enjoy the Super Bowl. (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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+5 Yes, Puerto Rico is widely considered a colony—or often described as the world's oldest colony—due to its status as an unincorporated U.S. territory. While residents are U.S. citizens, they lack voting representation in Congress, cannot vote for president,

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago

"Should" is neither here nor there.

  1. they will not let puerto rico be independent.
  2. PR would get treated better as a State
  3. The republicans will not admit PR as a State right now, unless they could be sure their people would be elected there.

I don't know what you mean by military support. Are you saying if they are allowed to go independent? They won't, there is zero chance they will be independent.

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