On point number 7, weren't California and Texas foreign countries that were
allowed to become states?
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Christopher Hitchens
??? What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without
evidence. ???
??? Christopher Hitchens,
On 4/7/2019 5:08 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Dear Trump: Top 7 Signs Puerto Ricans Might Be Americans
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
06 April 19
Trump caused a brouhaha by tweeting that Puerto Rican officials "only take
from USA," as thoug they weren't part of the USA! Then his White House
deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley called Puerto Rico "that country" during
an interview on MSNBC Live with Hallie Jackson.
Trump seems to me to have some form of dementia, which would account for why
he keeps saying strange things like that his father was born in a very nice
place in Germany. Fred Drumpf was born in New York City in 1905 and later
changed his name to Trump because of anti-immigrant (anti-German) sentiment
during World War I.
So there are some ways that you can tell that Puerto Ricans are Americans.
1. Puerto Rico came to be part of the United States because on July 25,
1898, the US invaded the island, and then annexed it via the Treaty of Paris
on April 11, 1899. (Sam Erman, "Meanings of Citizenship in the U.S. Empire:
Puerto Rico, Isabel Gonzalez, and the Supreme Court, 1898 to 1905," Journal
of American Ethnic History, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Summer, 2008), pp. 5-33.)
2. As early as 1904, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Isabel Gonzales
that Puerto Ricans could not be excluded by immigration authorities,
inasmuch as they were not aliens (Gonzales v. Williams, 1904). This ruling
was a baby step toward accepting that the island, having been annexed from
Spain by the US congress, was no longer alien to the US. (Sam Erman).
3. The Jones Act of 1917 recognized Puerto Ricans as US citizens. Because
Puerto Rico itself is a commonwealth rather than a state, Puerto Ricans
residing in Puerto Rico cannot vote for president.
4. Charles R. Venator-Santiago writes, "In 1934, Congress introduced a
territorial form of birthright citizenship permitting the children of Puerto
Ricans born in the island to acquire U.S. citizenship at birth."
5. Since Puerto Ricans are full citizens, when they move to the mainland and
reside in a state, they can vote for president, just like any other citizen
of the US resident in that state. I have an educated guess for whom they are
not voting in 2020.
6. Since 1952, even Puerto Ricans residing in Puerto Rico have had a
representative in the House of Representatives, a non-voting "resident
commissioner." Other countries don't typically have representatives in
Congress, though there is a nagging doubt that Mitch McConnell actually
views the Kremlin as his constituency.
7. Puerto Rico has introduced a bill to become a state by 2021. We don't
usually let foreign countries become states.
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