For months, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles has quietly refused to accept most Puerto Rican birth certificates, the primary document for people applying for a driver’s license or for a state identification card.
State officials say they judge the document to be untrustworthy and note the prohibition is temporary.
By Sept. 30, all Puerto Ricans born on the island are expected to have newly issued birth certificates with enhanced security features. The Ohio BMV is ready to accept those documents, said spokeswoman Lindsay Komlanc.

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Ohio BMV policy leaves people from Puerto Rico with identity crisis

Cleveland is in the midst of a puerto-ricans-are-not-to-be-trusted-and-probably-aren’t-u.s.-citizens-anyway freakout (and, you know, maybe they should just go home instead of Cleveland going to all the trouble of making ballots in more languages than just English).