'Your Trip is Not International, But It’s Not Really a Domestic'; Secret Service Documents Detail Jill Biden Puerto Rico Visit

Secret Service had to tell its agents Puerto Rico's water was safe to drink.

'Your Trip is Not International, But It’s Not Really a Domestic'; Secret Service Documents Detail Jill Biden Puerto Rico Visit
1921 of Puerto Rico by Rand McNally and Company. Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4971p.ct000297/?r=-0.026,-0.117,1.111,0.944,0

As former First Lady of the United States Jill Biden was leaving Puerto Rico at the end of her second official visit, I submitted a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request for communications, maps, and presentations associated with the trip. To be honest, I was solely looking to see if they had to specifically plan a route that avoided all the potholes on Puerto Rico’s horrible roads. However, I cast a wide net to see if I could find any interesting tidbits that would have not been included in a hyper-focused request. Nearly a year later, I received 173 heavily-redacted pages of emails and schedules without any mention of roads.

However, I have pulled out the most interesting bits of information and laid them out below.