While Puerto Rico sinks in debt, residents flee in record numbers to the U.S.

Puerto Rico is losing its people. Whole families are leaving. “Se Vende” or “For Sale” signs are everywhere. Jet Blue and American Airlines are breaking records in one-way departure flights to Miami and New York.

According to a recent Pew Report, Puerto Ricans are abandoning the besieged island for the United States in numbers that rival those seen during the Great Migration after World War II, when Puerto Rico exported almost half of its population to the mainland.

The report estimated that between 2000 and 2013, the island’s population decreased by more than 200,000 people, the first sustained population decline and outmigration since becoming a territory of the U.S. .... http://latino.foxnews.com