Show porto ricans are declared aliens new york oct 8 A decision has been handed down y the united stated circuit court by judge lacomba in which he liolis that a citizen of porto rico is not a citizen of the united states and as such entitled to land here without interference amm alie immigration laws but lit the insular decisions notwithstanding an alien within the meaning of the law alic matter came before judge lacombe on the application for a writ of habeas corpus sworn out on behalf of isabella gonzalas cs a native porto rican woman who arrived in new york aug she waa detained by the immigration on the brouna that being an unmarried woman her condition was such that she was an undesirable alien she was ordered de but a well to do aunt and uncle living on island secured attorneys to get her released through habeas corpus the only question for discussion reads the opinion i whether petitioner is an alien the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the united states provides that all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof arc of the united states the peli lioner was by birth an alien and unless she lias since in appropriate way been naturalized she is still an alien there s no suggestion that she vas ever nat zed under the general laws reg the admission of alien citizens the treaty of paris unlike earlier treaties which dealt with louisiana california and alaska did not undertake to make native born ci tiona of porto citizens of the united states it expressly ahe civil rights and political status of tie native inhabitants of the territories coming to the united states should be determined by congress |