- They cannot vote in Presidential contests.
- They cannot elect members to Congress (neither can Guam).
- They are brown people that speak Spanish.
They are citizens of a US Territory.
They were acquired as a war spoil of the Spanish-American war
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Spoils of war. Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico became territories of the United States as part of the terms of the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the Spanish-American War of 1898.Jul 3, 2014
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Trump floated the idea to allow Puerto Rico to declare Bankruptcy and settle their debt at some discount. A *haircut* to the investors of state and municipal bonds. Should that happen: Interest rates on that class of bonds will rise dramatically and all states and cities will faced increased costs. There is no US constitutional guarantee of state, city (and territorial) bond principal.