>a migration so large it rivals those from New Orleans to Houston after Hurricane Katrina and from Cuba to Miami during the Mariel boatlift.
>The scale is larger than any previous movement of Puerto Ricans to the mainland, said Jorge Duany, the director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University and an expert on Puerto Rican migration. “It’s a stampede.”
>More than 168,000 people have flown or sailed out of Puerto Rico to Florida since the hurricane, landing at airports in Orlando, Miami and Tampa, and the port in Fort Lauderdale. Nearly half are arriving in Orlando. An additional 100,000 are booked on flights to Orlando through Dec. 31, county officials said. Large numbers are also settling in the Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach areas.
>The Puerto Rican population of Florida has exploded from 479,000 in 2000 to well over one million today, according to the Pew Research Center.
>immigration of working age, okay educated, mostly western, friendly people americans are spoiled
Kayden Murphy
Time to build a wall around their island
Charles Morales
Why would americans even argue against immigration. Their basic value is that of individual freedom and the country was founded by "immigrants".
Joshua Fisher
Those are less people then Austria got forced to take in 2 years and we are a country of 8 million.
Jonathan Bennett
How many people has Austria taken in the last 2 years?
Cameron Walker
Imagine how strong their country could be if they went full American dream. Today they already get tons of already highly educated asians who want to work in the sillicon valley or some other high value market, imagine if they could attract people in the peak of their productiveness from all over the world without paying a cent for raising them. It would be crazy scary.
Parker Barnes
What can we do? Their island is fucked and it's a U.S. territory, so it's expected. Also we already have a lot of Puerto Ricans and their descendants living on the main land.
Andrew Wood
They are American citizens so who cares.
Easton Sullivan
Those girls are pretty sexy
Christopher Sullivan
>Why would americans even argue against immigration. Their basic value is that of individual freedom and the country was founded by "immigrants". They are U.S. citizens so they aren't immigrants.
you know what i think is that our anglo-ness is tainting them. same with mexicans. i dont want them here for THEIR sake not ours. fuck protestants and fuck anglos
Asher Garcia
Clueless retards. We’ve taken in 52 million of them, the bulk of which came here illegally or are the children of people who came illegally.
The US has already handed out multiple amnesties. Even Obama towards the end of his term started doing things to curb the illegal immigration like kill Wet Foot Dry Foot and block immigration from Venezuela.
Evan Hughes
gee I don't know why would early american colonists even argue against the monarchy? their basic value is that of economically supporting the home country
you fucking retard you dont have to espouse the ideology of your government. and besides that classical liberalism can be twisted into whatever the fuck you want it to be, so america can be whatever the fuck it wants
Michael Brown
Besides the two older women in the middle, they all look underage. I remember this episode, pretty comfy.
Joseph Jackson
>Besides the two older women in the middle, they all look underage. Yes?
David Torres
Anglo culture >>>>>>>>>>>>>> shit >>>>>>>>>> Latin culture million what
Caleb Flores
>Clueless retards. We’ve taken in 52 million of them, the bulk of which came here illegally or are the children of people who came illegally. The thread is about PR. Not Latin Americans who aren't U.S. citizens.
Robert Parker
> # > million >what I don't think he knows what the topic of the thread is.
Jordan Wilson
it's absolutely shit, Puerto Ricans are vile creatures, don't mind if they stick to Florida though. Outside of a few areas it's a pointless peninsula
Jackson Cruz
But even then, isn't the number of undocumented immigrants (not all of whom are Latino) like 11 million?
Daniel Jones
>illegally They're US citizens
Jayden White
We should have removed Peurto Rico as an American territory a long time ago. the UN has been asking for it since like the 70s or before that.
It would be really nice to send them back and then cut the cord.
Gabriel Morgan
Puerto Ricans should make up their mind whether they want independence or to be a state
Jonathan Perry
52 million is the total Hispanic population. Most of them came here illegally but were naturalized.
Thomas Carter
They can't join as they have debt.
Christian Hughes
Would Puerto Rico not be a sh*thole if it became a state? Or would it be the new Mississippi?
Hudson Wright
Why the fuck is the UN butthurt about Puerto Rico being a US territory? Puerto Rican’s themselves like their status as a US territory.
If there was a real push in their country to disconnect from the US, we’d gladly let them go.
Jordan Thomas
It would immediately become the worst state in every socioeconomic measure. Everyone in Mississippi would throw a party.
James Sanchez
Because the current political structure of PR essentially violates the "non-self-determining colony" definition set by the UN. Self-determination is considered a human right.
I wish we hadn't even held onto them this long. That place and the people from it are going to be a huge cost to our infrastructure and way of life in the years and decades moving forward.
Nicholas Morris
>Disconnect from free gibs
Ayden Lewis
Didn't America (literally) killed Puerto Rico's independence movement last century?
Matthew Young
Why don’t we just forcibly cut off Puerto Rico? Help them rebuilt from the Hurricane, give em a few bucks as a severance package, and send them on their way.
It’s never gonna be good enough to join as a state.
Jacob Taylor
>tfw no pr bf
Sebastian Butler
retard
Jordan Price
Puerto Rico is the mistake of the USA and they deserve this.
The Spanish American war was unnecesary, and Americans used false reasons to justify that war like the weapons of mass destruction they never found in Iraq. Now pay for what you did by accepting all those Portoricans.
