It's the Puerto Rican people themselves that are balking at the idea of "full citizenship" though. Because that comes with it all kinds of other things like in

It's the Puerto Rican people themselves that are balking at the idea of "full citizenship" though. Because that comes with it all kinds of other things like increased tax liabilities, social service responsiblities, jury duty, etc, etc. They've demonstrated repeatedly that they prefer their "quasi-citizenship" by boycotting the referendum vote.