Is it legal now for people who live in Puerto Rico to come to the United States whenever they want?
546733
Puerto Ricans are US citizens
978565
First, put down the blunt. Second, read the news for yourself. The date to vote for this is election day, Tuesday Nov 9. You will find out then if it was passed or not. Right now, it is still illegal.
410470
Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the USA,for all of you who didn't know. You go mami,VIVA Boriquen!
495137
The US is not cutting funding to Puerto Rico.  It is just saying that the free ride the Puerto Ricans have been getting due to their commonwealth status will end and they will have to pay their taxes soon if they do not vote for statehood.  Puerto Rico is a very heavily subsidized part of the United States and will never be cut off from funding.  It is strategically critical for defense reasons.
815111
Yes, any legal immigrant is welcome to the U.S. I am saying "legal".
1028976
Interesting question. I'm an American citizen because the USA invaded Puerto Rico in 1898. What apply to me.
416753
you can always come in illegally and then after a while the US government will give you legal residences...\n\nat least thats what they do to mexicans
180493
Puerto Rico is a part of the United States. That's almost like asking, "Why did New Yorkers go to Connecticut?"
467428
The key word here is ILLEGAL, that makes it simple ship them back to where ever they came from.  If they want to be here legally and are willing to do what every other American citizen has to do, like pay taxes, then they can come in and serve just like everyone else.
312754
No not yet unfortunately, i hope they pass that because these illegals are causing this country money and some might say no they are not, but the way things are going it definitely will.  Either come in legally or go away!
366872
NOONE Should Be Able To Cross The US Border Freely\nAt ANY Time\nFor ANY Reason
491137
only in certain states and only if you live there and it have to happen over a number of years.  Sorry, but I think the answer is no.
161684
Most certainly but not in the near future.\n\nThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Sea, about 1,000 mi east-southeast of Miami, Fla. A possession of the United States, it consists of the island of Puerto Rico plus the adjacent islets of Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. Puerto Rico has a mountainous, tropical ecosystem with very little flat land and few mineral resources.\n\nPuerto Rico's governor is elected directly for a four-year term. A bicameral legislature consists of a 27-member Senate and a 51-member House of Representatives, all elected for four-year terms. From 1940 to 1968, Puerto Rican politics was dominated by a party advocating voluntary association with the U.S. Since then, the New Progressive Party, a party favoring U.S. statehood, has won five of the last eight gubernatorial elections. Puerto Ricans have twice voted to determine their political status. In 1967, the outcome was Commonwealth 60%; statehood 39%; independence 1%. By 1993, Commonwealth dropped to 48.6%; statehood rose to 46.3%; independence polled 4.4%; and 0.6% of the ballots were blank or spoiled.\n\nThe Nov. 2, 2004, gubernatorial elections led to a two-month recount and a court challenge. On Jan. 2, 2005, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá of the Popular Democratic Party was declared governor. He received 48.4% of the vote, and his main challenger, Pedro Rossello of the New Progressive Party, 48.2%. Acevedo supports the existing U.S. territorial status of the island; Rossello supports statehood for Puerto Rico.\n\nPuerto Rico's political status has been an issue since the island was ceded by Spain after the U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Puerto Ricans were made U.S. citizens in 1917, but residents there have no right to vote in presidential elections or to send representatives to Congress.\n\nFew mainland Americans think very much about Puerto Rico. That gap in their attentions may end only when they wake up to discover that the flag has 51 stars.\n\nBecause of legislation now quietly wending its way through Congress with the support of the Republican leadership, decisions made on the island in the next year or so could have profound consequences for the future of Puerto Rico as well as for the United States as a whole.\n\nThe House of Representatives may vote as early as this week on a bill to set up a plebiscite on the island's political status. Passage of this act by both houses, plus the President's signature, would oblige the U.S. government to honor whichever of three options Puerto Rico's voters choose: maintaining the island's present commonwealth status, independence or entry into the Union as the 51st state\n\nStill there are many issues to be resolved. Language, federal welfare dependence, and others for which the US federal government doesn't care very much.
871888
im not quite sure. you could ofcourse just apply for citizenship then you could just come over to the us.
1132726
Yes, and kindly start in the Los Angeles County area of California. They are committing an illegal act and as any American citizen can tell you, if I were committing an illegal act I'd be arrested, prosecuted and jailed. ALL ILLEGALS NEED TO BE SHIPPED HOME AT THEIR COUNTRIES EXPENSE.
1073419
Are you asking about the UK version?  Because the American version hasn't officially started yet.  They lock them in over here after the 4th of July and let them out around Labor Day sometime.
569071
Check your facts. America is known as the Land of Opportunity. Most immigrants are escaping something(not all are hispanic only 75% of them are) It may be poverty, persecution ext. I don't see how you can be so ignorant. My best friend is from Puerto Rico and I would be lost with out her!