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I honestly don’t think this would ever get support. Puerto Rico is very republican last I checked so dems aren’t exactly incentivized to vote it in. And republicans don’t want it because that would be fair treatment to a minority so
Irony of the situation that the same Republican Party hates Puerto Ricans so much. I hope PR folks understand that when repubes say migrants are rapists, druggists, and murderers they also mean you - even though you’re not migrants - MAGA doesn’t give a fuck to the fact that you’re citizens.
"No no no....he's talking about Haitians, those savages.
We Puerto Ricans are the exemption. We're special."
We're the good ones
first they came for the LGBTQ and we said nothing for we were not them, then they came for the couch cushions and we laughed... wait.
Cubans who came here legally are the exception.
The legal way for Cubans to come here is to come here. Literally, they can get residency as long as they show up