Missed an opportunity after WW2 to cut them loose in the same way we did the Philippines, IMO.
There is no compelling reason to allow this. They offer us nothing except good soldiers in the military. There is no strategic value for us to have them as a state, crime is very high, debt is very high, democrats through and through. It has served them well with being democrat because of all the welfare and such.
When will the US stop being a welfare state? We do not have enough jobs for our own citizens let alone import both legal and illegal. I would like to see a moratorium on all immigration for 10 years. Then we can assimilate the immigrants we have now. With technology changing such as kiosk for checkout, ordering, self driving cars and semis, and more and more manufacturing being done by robots. These jobs will go away and not be filled by other jobs. We are at a point in history that the world has never been in. This is why universal income has been discussed and will I am sure be a thing in the future. So why would we want or need more immigrants? why would we want to water down and dilute any universal income to the masses?
I'm more concerned about the ramifications of California splitting into 3 states than I am about Puerto Rico gaining statehood.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Three_States_Initiative_(2018)
I think we'll see a lot more initiatives like these in the near future. The Dims are wrong about damn near everything IMHO, but they are capable of simple arithmetic. Any "new" state being floated around is simply an attempt at getting more senators from blue states.
I'm not sure you've sized this one up correctly. The initiatives to split up California are NOT coming from Liberals but rather from disaffected (relatively) Conservative quarters who feels that the dominant coastal cities are leaving the the more Conservative interior and rural communities without a voice. The split movements are not being embraced by Sacramento or the Democrat party.
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