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Where is Puerto Rico? - Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, It lies approximately 40 miles (65 km) west of the Virgin Islands, 50 miles (80 km) east of the Dominican Republic and 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of the U.S. state of Florida.

Location Map of Puerto Rico

Map showing location of Puerto Rico in northeastern Caribbean Sea.

Where is Puerto Rico Located?

Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, It is located on the continent of North America, in between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. The capital and largest city is San Juan. Puerto Rico covers an area of 3,515 sq mi (9,104 km2), with popuation of 3,285,874 as of 2020 U.S. census.

Puerto Rico follows the Republican form of government. That is based on the American model, with a separation of powers. The government of Puerto Rico is under the authority and control of United States. The government of Puerto Rico consists of three branches viz the executive branch, legislative branch and the judicial branch. The governor serves as the leader of the executive branch. The legislative branch is composed of Senate and House of Representatives. The speaker of the house leads the House of Representatives, while the president leads the senate. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico is the head of the judicial branch.

One of Latin America and the Caribbean's most competitive and dynamic economies has been Puerto Rico. The economy of Puerto Rico is based on manufacturing like pharmaceuticals, textiles, petrochemicals, and electronics, followed by services such as finance, insurance, real estate, and tourism.

Puerto Rico has everything you could possibly want in a sunny Caribbean vacation resort. All types of beach lovers, from couples and families to dedicated surfers, are attracted to the stunning palm-lined beaches, some of which have mild, quiet waters lapping the golden sand and others that have tremendous waves and renowned surf breaks. Puerto Rico is a complicated island with a clear American influence on top of the Spanish Caribbean culture. With its American brand restaurants and other luxuries connected to the mainland USA, San Juan makes this particularly clear. If you travel deeper, you will come across charming towns, tiny villages, stunning islands, caverns, and a rough rocky interior. Some of the tourist destinations are Castillo de San Cristobal, El Yunque National Forest, El Morro Fort, Old San Juan, Culebra Island, Vieques and Bioluminescent Bay, Catedral de San Juan Bautista, Cayo Icacos, Luquillo Beach and so on.

Puerto Rico Facts

Continent

North America

Sovereign State

United States

Before annexation

Captaincy General of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico Coordinates

18.2208° N, 66.5901° W

Location

Northeastern Caribbean Sea

Cession from Spain

11 April 1899

Current constitution

25 July 1952

Capital and largest city

San Juan

Official languages

Spanish, English

Total Area

9,104 km2 (3,515 sq mi)

Water (%)

1.6

Population (2020 census)

3,285,874

Population Density

350.8/km2 (908.6/sq mi) (39th)

Currency

United States dollar (US$) (USD)

Time zone

UTC-04:00 (AST)

Ethnic groups (2010)

75.8% White, 12.4% Black, 3.3% Two or more races
.0.5% American Indian & Alaskan Native,0.2% Asian
0.1% Pacific Islander, 7.8% Other

Demonym(s)

Puerto Rican

Government

Devolved presidential constitutional dependency

Highest elevation

4,390 ft (1,340 m)

Driving side

right

Calling code

1 (787), +1 (939)

USPS abbreviation

PR

ISO 3166 code

PR, US-PR

GDP (PPP) (2021 estimate)

$112.273 billion[6] (88th)

Gini (2011)

53.1 high

HDI (2015)

0.845 very high - Rank 40th

Airport

Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina,
Mercedita Airport in Ponce,
and the Rafael Hernández Airport in Aguadilla

Puerto Rico Ports

San Juan Port , Port of the Americas in Ponce

Road

Freeways, Expressways, and Highways

Internet TLD

.pr

Website

https://www.usa.gov/state-government/puerto-rico

Places to Visit Puerto Rico

The top places to visit in Puerto Rico are:

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Where is Puerto Rico Located on the Map? - Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island and unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.

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Visa applicants will have to prove they have insurance or the financial resources for medical costs.

"Immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our health care system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs," President Trump wrote on Friday. Credit... T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration will deny visas to immigrants who cannot prove they will have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical costs once they become permanent residents of the United States, the White House announced Friday in the latest move by President Trump to undermine legal immigration.

Mr. Trump issued a proclamation, effective Nov. 3, ordering consular officers to bar immigrants seeking to live in the United States unless they "will be covered by approved health insurance" or can prove that they have "the financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs."

The president justified the move by saying that legal immigrants are three times as likely as American citizens to lack health insurance, making them a burden on hospitals and taxpayers in the United States. Officials cited a Kaiser Family Foundation study that said that among the nonelderly population, 23 percent of legal immigrants were likely to be uninsured, compared with about 8 percent of American citizens.

"The United States government is making the problem worse by admitting thousands of aliens who have not demonstrated any ability to pay for their health care costs," Mr. Trump wrote, adding, "immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our health care system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs."

The president's proclamation, which has been in the works for several months, is aimed primarily at immigrants seeking to join their families in the United States, according to a White House official who spoke under condition of anonymity to more openly discuss the new policy. It does not affect refugees, asylum seekers or students seeking to attend college in the United States, according to the White House.

Immigrant visas are the vehicle for receiving a green card in the United States for people who are processing their paperwork abroad. Once the policy is in place, people seeking those visas would be asked by consular officers to show how they intend to be covered by health insurance within 30 days of arriving in the United States. That could include proof that they will have health care through a job or will be covered under a relative's insurance.

If they cannot show that to the satisfaction of the consular office, their visa will be denied, the White House official said. The State Department will develop standards and rules that consular officials will follow in making the determination, the official said.

Thousands of people annually would be denied green cards if the executive order takes effect, said Steve Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Law School.

"President Trump has failed to build a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to deter illegal immigrants," he said, "but he has effectively built an invisible wall to keep out legal immigrants."

The surprise order is the latest step in a long effort by Stephen Miller, the president's top immigration adviser, and others in the administration, to limit what they consider the financial burdens of allowing immigrants into the United States.

After years of effort by Mr. Miller, the administration issued a regulation in August that would allow officials to deny permanent legal status to immigrants who are poor. The regulation, which imposes an aggressive wealth test on legal immigrants, has faced several legal challenges but will go into effect on Oct. 15 unless it is blocked by a court.

That policy, known as the "public charge" rule, says immigrants seeking to live permanently in the United States could be denied if officials deem it is likely they will be a burden on society by, for example, being unable to pay for health care or seeking food and housing assistance.

Under the new proclamation, which was earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal, officials are directed to use a similar approach in determining whether to grant immigrant visas to people seeking to live in the United States.

Immigration advocates were taken aback by the proclamation, noting there are already several steps that applicants for a green card must take to qualify, including passing background checks and health examinations.

Elizabeth Jamae, an immigration lawyer at Pearl Law Group in San Francisco, said she doubted the assertion in the proclamation that lawful immigrants were about three times as likely as United States citizens to lack health insurance.

"Most people who are receiving green cards already have a job waiting or have a spouse that is employed," Ms. Jamae said. "When you apply for a green card you already have to meet certain financial requirements."

People coming to the United States who are sponsored by companies for a specific job are likely to have insurance through their employer, and are unlikely to be affected. But many adults who are not immediately eligible for employment-based health insurance or who cannot afford private health insurance will be denied entry.

"Without the power to change U.S. law on his own, Trump is trying to find end runs around Congress and the legislative process to impose his will by fiat," said Julie Dinnerstein, an immigration lawyer with CUNY Citizenship NOW, which provides free legal services to the public.

The president's proclamation relies on the same immigration laws that he used in issuing his travel ban shortly after taking office. In that case, Mr. Trump asserted that the threat of terrorism required a ban on entry from certain majority-Muslim countries.

He cited the same code in Friday's proclamation, writing that allowing immigrants without health care into the United States would "be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and that their entry should be subject to certain restrictions, limitations, and exceptions."

Doug Rand, a former White House official who worked on immigration in the Obama administration, predicted that the president's proclamation would be met by legal challenges.

"This came out of the same authority as the Muslim ban and the asylum ban," said Mr. Rand, who co-founded Boundless, a technology firm that helps immigrants apply for visas.

Both bans were met with immediate litigation that was partly successful. A watered-down version of the Muslim ban was approved by the Supreme Court after several lawsuits. The asylum ban, which would have excluded most asylum seekers, was blocked by the courts.

The latest proclamation also has logistical obstacles, Mr. Rand said, noting that the State Department has a brief window to teach thousands of consular officers how to determine whether prospective immigrants can pay for their medical care.

"If this is not going to be enjoined by a court in the next month," Mr. Rand said, "it will cause complete chaos."

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Trump Will Deny Immigrant Visas to Those Who Can't Pay for Health Care

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Visa applicants will have to prove they have insurance or the financial resources for medical costs. WASHINGTON - The Trump administration will deny visas to immigrants who cannot prove they will have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical costs once they become permanent residents of the United States, the White House announced Friday in the latest move by President Trump to undermine legal immigration.

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With one proclamation signed earlier this month, President Donald Trump made his adviser Stephen Miller's dreams of restricting legal immigration a reality.

When it goes into effect November 3, Trump's proclamation will make getting into the US much harder for immigrants sponsored by family members, the phenomenon Trump has excoriated as " chain migration." It will throw up a barrier to those coming through the diversity visa lottery - the subject of Trump's " shithole countries " rant - which allows the US to accept 55,000 immigrants annually from countries with historically low levels of immigration.

Researchers estimate it couldkeep up to two-thirds of future immigrants out who would be admitted under current law.

Under the proclamation, immigrants who do not have health insurance and cannot afford to pay medical care costs will not be ableto move to the US permanently.

The move could bar roughly 375,000 immigrants annually, based on projections of data from fiscal year 2017, according to Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute.

Those 375,000 immigrants won't be affected at random. The proclamation targets immigrants who have come to the US legally under policies Trump and his advisers often attack.

He has blamed the diversity visa lottery and chain migration for bringing in the perpetrators of two terror attacks in New York in December 2017, claiming during his State of the Union address the following January that "these programs present risks we can just no longer afford."

"Chain migration is a disaster, and very unfair to our country," he said during another address in February 2018. "The visa lottery is something that should have never been allowed in the first place. People enter a lottery to come into our country. What kind of a system is that? It is time for Congress to act and to protect Americans."

Trump has already been waging a quiet and effective campaign to reduce overall legal immigration, the long-held goal of groups like the Center for Immigration Studies and the Federation for American Immigration Reform have long sought.

But Trump's proclamation could be the most drastic of those changes - reshaping the immigration system in the US during Trump's time in office along exactly the lines restrictionists have wanted.

While the proclamation is on its face about health care, even Joe Grogan, the director of the White House domestic policy council, told reporters on October 9 that it is "not part of the health care agenda," but the immigration agenda.

"This is nothing less than a legal immigration ban," Frank Sharry, executive director of the immigrant advocacy group America's Voice, said in a statement.

How the rule would work

Some immigrants, mostly family members of US citizens or green card holders, can apply for lawful permanent residency abroad and obtain a green card almost immediately. Otherwise, immigrants can come to the US on two types of visas: those for immigrants who intend to settle in the US permanently and eventually obtain a green card, and those that only allow an immigrant to remain in the US temporarily.

In order to get a green card,an immigrant will have to prove to a consular officer that they will obtain health insurance within 30 days of their arrival in the US. If they can't, they must demonstrate that they will be able to pay for their medical expenses.

The proclamation does not lay out clear procedures for determining whether immigrants meet the proclamation's requirements - it will be up to individual consular officers charged with evaluating visa applications and the State Department, which is expected to issue internal guidance on it.

But based on insurance coverage alone, the majority of adults who were granted green cards over the last three years would have been shut out.

According to the Migration Policy Institute, 34 percent of those recent green card recipients are uninsured, and another 31 percent have other health care benefits that don't count as insurance under the proclamation, including Medicaid or insurance purchased with subsidies on an Affordable Care Act exchange.

Families don't stop qualifying for individual insurance subsidies until they have a household income that is at least four times the federal poverty line, or over $103,000 for a family of four and nearly $50,000 for an individual. That's a threshold that is hard to clear for all but the wealthiest immigrants: The median income for a US immigrant household was $56,000, according to the Pew Research Center.

The proclamation applies to all immigrants applying for visas at consulates abroad with the intention of living in the US permanently. There are some limited exceptions: immigrants who already have a valid visa, children of US citizens, unaccompanied children, permanent residents who have been outside of the US for more than one year, and recipients of "special immigrant visas" for Afghans and Iraqis who have aided the US government and their families.

The administration can also make additional exceptions on a case-by-case basis. But parents and spouses of US citizens and the immediate family members of lawful permanent residents are subject to the proclamation.

The rule will fall hardest on immigrants who are sponsored by family members and those from the diversity visa lottery. Just under 84,000 people have already been selected for the diversity lottery in 2020: 38 percent from African countries, 37 percent from European countries, 19 percent from Asia, and the rest from Latin America and Oceania. Immigrants with job offers will have an easier time, as they will likely have health insurance through their employer, Gelatt said.

It's not clear at this point what income level would be sufficient to be approved for a visa under the proclamation.

A State Department official said October 7 that consular officers will decide whether applicants are eligible for a visa under the proclamation based on information available when they apply for a visa, including medical and financial documentation that is already required as part of their application package.

That refers to the income and asset information submitted by a "sponsor," usually a US citizen or lawful permanent resident family member or an employer, who claims financial responsibility for a visa applicant, according to a Department of State cable message obtained by Vox on Wednesday.

The State Department told consular officers in the cable that, when evaluating parents of US citizens over the age of 21 under the proclamation, they should rely on medical exams to "determine if there are current health issues, including acute or chronic conditions that will require extensive medical care and likely result in particularly high medical costs."

"If the applicant has such a condition, officers must determine if the applicant has either health insurance or funds that will be available to cover foreseeable medical costs," the cable says.

In general, however, the cable cautions against "speculat[ing] on applicant's potential future health," instructing that they should only be making determinations based on an applicant's and "current medical state."

The cable also advises that consular officers should initially refuse visas to applicants who they believe might qualify for an exemption because their admission to the US would be in the "national interest," and then request an exemption with their supervisors.

For the immigrants who are let in,Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, said that the proclamation is likely to push immigrants to buy short-term or visitor insurance policies, which generally don't cover pre-existing conditions, and often have caps or limits on benefits. It will also probably discourage immigrants from enrolling in insurance through Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, he added.

"These new rules are going to add to the confusion and fear surrounding recent immigration policy changes, discouraging lawfully present immigrants from enrolling in programs they are eligible for," he said.

Trump's rhetoric focuses on unauthorized immigration. But he's cut back legal immigration too.

While his moves to block asylum seekers at the southern border has gotten the most attention, Trump has also taken steps to restrict legal immigration to the US. His travel ban blocking citizens of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and Somalia from entering the US is still in effect and has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

He's slowed down processing of legal immigrants, almost doubling average wait times for those applying for green cards, employment visas, citizenship, and other benefits by the end of 2018. And he's slashed the refugee admissions cap to a historic low of 18,000, down from 110,000 just two years ago.

Some within his administration want to go even further. Miller has been the architect of sweeping administrative changes that aim to keep out all but the wealthiest immigrants.

He was behind the so-called "public charge regulation," which, if it goes into effect October 15, would give immigration officials much more leeway to turn away low-income immigrants based on an evaluation of 20 factors, ranging from the use of certain public benefits programs - including food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers, and Medicaid - to English language proficiency. That regulation could affect over 382,000 people seeking to enter the US, extend their visa, or upgrade their temporary visa to a green card.

"[Immigration] touches upon everything, but the goal is to create an immigration system that enhances the vibrancy, the unity, the togetherness and the strength of our society," Miller told the Washington Post.

Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has also reportedly been working on an immigration reform plan that wouldn't raise immigration levels, but it would move toward a points-based system under which immigrants with higher levels of education, English language skills, and job offers from US companies would be prioritized over family members of US citizens and permanent residents.

Kushner's plan would need to be passed in Congress, an unlikely prospect when immigration issues have never been so politically fraught. But Trump's proclamation accomplishes similar goals without needing to capitulate to Democrats, so long as it survives in court.

Advocates are expected to file legal challenges to the proclamation in the coming weeks. But with a Supreme Court that has already recognized this president's broad powers to restrict immigration where the administration can provide a rationale, there's no telling whether the justices will view this case differently.

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With one proclamation signed earlier this month, President Donald Trump made his adviser Stephen Miller's dreams of restricting legal immigration a reality. When it goes into effect November 3, Trump's proclamation will make getting into the US much harder for immigrants sponsored by family members, the phenomenon Trump has excoriated as " chain migration."

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This collection of recorded interviews documents the stories of people whose lives were shaped by Ellis Island. Passengers, families, immigration officials, military personnel, detainees, and former island employees share their perspectives and relive the moments that formed our collective history. Educational, uplifting, harrowing, and inspiring, these precious cultural artifacts give meaning and texture to our collections.

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This collection of recorded interviews documents the stories of people whose lives were shaped by Ellis Island. Passengers, families, immigration officials, military personnel, detainees, and former island employees share their perspectives and relive the moments that formed our collective history. Educational, uplifting, harrowing, and inspiring, these precious cultural artifacts give meaning and texture to our collections.

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Illegal Immigration in Arizona: Life and Death Along the US Border

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Jonathan Hollingsworth -- http://bit.ly/IYkOCi -- documents personal effects left behind by illegal immigrants who die crossing the US border in Arizona. His new photo book, Left Behind: Life and Death Along the U.S.

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