This is rank stupidity. Those born in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and other U.S. Territories are considered U.S. Citizens.
Such stupidity reflects poorly on US education by our public schools, which ever since the 1940s has been lowering our educational standards so that an 8th grader today has the reading and math levels of a 3rd or 4th grader. Seniors in high school, especially those in California, struggle to pass the mandated state high school exit exams, which are required in order to receive a high school diploma. I taught summer school classes to help juniors and seniors pass that exam. It was a joke. Students were constantly texting on their phones and not even listening to me or any of the other teachers. The admin in charge did not care. She was only interested in collecting the money from the student's parents.