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Like it or not, Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens and have been since 1917 but U.S. Republican Representative Ginny Brown-Waite from Florida apparently thinks that speaking Spanish and being varying shades of brown makes your a foreigner.

A week ago, Brown-Waite sent out a press release about the economic-stimulus package pending in Congress. She said the package shouldn’t give $600-per-person checks to residents of Puerto Rico and Guam.
“I do not believe American taxpayer funds should be sent to foreign citizens who do not pay taxes,” Brown-Waite said.

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