Expats: The last colony

Photo from Frank and Frances Carter Collection. No shortage of immigrants, refugees and expats scramble for American passports, so when Puerto Rican independence leader Juan Mari Brás renounced his in political protest in 1993, the US State Department was shocked. After a ten-year legal battle he became the first person to receive Puerto Rican citizenship without also having US citizenship: “I freed myself from the indignity of a false citizenship… that of the country that in…