Puerto Rico legal status heading to US Congress

[Anonymous]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/puerto-ricans-speak-us-territorys-225002500.html

[alanjjohnstone]

https://apnews.com/article/politics-puerto-rico-caribbean-congress-392e89b3d50ae00e3c647e58886b27f3

“Everyone, even congress people themselves, know that the possibilities of this becoming law are minimal and maybe non-existent, but it doesn’t stop being important,” former Puerto Rico governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá told The Associated Press.

Luis Herrero, a political consultant, said during the hearing that even if enough people support statehood, there are not enough votes in the Senate to make Puerto Rico a state: “Not today, not yesterday, not tomorrow. Since 1898, Puerto Rican statehood has been a mirage, lip service to score cheap political points or to raise a few dollars for a campaign.”

[alanjjohnstone]

I sometimes use Puerto Rico’s status permitting unfettered immigration to the mainland USA as evidence that open borders would not result in the mass migration of the poor, lower-paid but would only be the viable option for the desperate.

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