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What s behind calls for Puerto Rico statehood? Here are 4 things to know
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Holyoke City Council supports resolution on Puerto Rico self-determination
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Traveling from Seven States, they demand decisive action from President-elect Joe Biden on three key issues.
In Delaware, hundreds of immigrant rights advocates led by Make the Road Action and Casa in Action came in a cavalcade from seven states and Washington D.C converging on President-Elect Joe Biden’s home city of Wilmington on Tuesday, December 15 to deliver a firm message take decisive action on three key issues: immigration, criminal justice reform, and debt relief for Puerto Rico.
But Biden’s commitment to fulfilling his campaign pledge to dismantle the Trump administration’s immigration policies through executive authority have recently been cast into doubt. On December 13, NPR reported that Biden intentionally did not include immigration in his top four priorities because the Biden camp and then the transition team felt that immigration activists had become too adversarial.
In
Puerto Rico, we have a saying –
dime con quién andas, y te diré quién eres – which means, show me the company you keep, and we will know who you are.
For decades in
Washington DC, Puerto Rican leaders who champion the idea of annexing the island as a state of the union (statehood) have argued that their full rights as U.S. citizens are being denied.
Dusk settles over the White House, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
But these same leaders are actively undermining transparent elections, deceiving the people by promising that statehood will come as a result of the recent plebiscites, denying racism and working to erode a host of rights that affect voting, women and LGBTQ+ persons in Puerto Rico.
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