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Top academics slam Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act
The Hill via msn ^ | 13 Apr 2021 | Rafael Bernal

Posted on 04/13/2021 7:30:15 PM PDT by blueplum

A group of 47 academics from top U.S. universities lambasted a proposed bill that would determine Puerto Rico's territorial status through a convention process.

In a letter sent Monday to a group of bipartisan congressional leaders, the academics, led by Columbia Law School's Christina Ponsa-Kraus, said the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act, which was introduced by Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), "disserves its purported goal perpetuating the pernicious myth that [multiple sovereignty] options exist. They do not."

"There are two, and only two, real self-determination options for Puerto Rico: statehood and independence. Yet the Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act defies constitutional reality by calling upon Puerto Ricans to define other non-territorial options. There are no other non-territorial options," reads the letter, which also was signed by professors at Harvard Law School.

Velázquez's bill would create a status convention to modify the territory's sovereign status from among a wide range of possibilities, including...a range of hybrid statuses whose constitutionality the letter's signatories call into question.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freeassociation; puertorico; scotus
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PR wants a designer statehood. The only benefit of 'free association' to the USA is military, and then only under certain conditions depending on the whims of the 'independent' nation who can choose to, or not to, support US military activities. In a post-cold-war environment, it's more a take and no give arrangement that has outlived its usefulness.
1 posted on 04/13/2021 7:30:15 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

The government of Puerto Rico ran a Ponzi Scheme for years.


2 posted on 04/13/2021 7:32:29 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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"There are two, and only two, real self-determination options for Puerto Rico: statehood and independence."

3: PR could always be rejoined with the totally Hispanic Spain.

3 posted on 04/13/2021 7:35:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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For years these clowns wanted independence. Now they want their cake and to be able to eat it too.

F*ck them. They live on an island that could print its own money from tourism but they choose sitting on their a$$es and waiting on those government checks to drop.


4 posted on 04/13/2021 7:35:10 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: blueunicorn6

And how much crap did President Trump catch for calling out all the corruption, only to be proven 100% correct on all of it.


5 posted on 04/13/2021 7:37:05 PM PDT by qaz123
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I used to tell people on Guam that the current status was better than ether statehood or independence. It was a hard sell.


6 posted on 04/13/2021 7:39:19 PM PDT by Fai Mao (It is time, past time and almost too late.)
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Independence, we do not want them as a state.

The people trying to turn us into North Mexico want them to be a state. The first Spanish speaking state.


7 posted on 04/13/2021 7:39:41 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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The best option would befit them to have open borders towards the US to welcome tourists, just like the Philippines.


8 posted on 04/13/2021 7:40:12 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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These idiots only care because they want the two liberal Senators they would get out of statehood.

They can go pound sand.


9 posted on 04/13/2021 7:50:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: Jonty30

Phillipines. I had to show a departure ticket to get into the country.


10 posted on 04/13/2021 7:51:25 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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Trade PR to China in exchange for all our debt they hold.


11 posted on 04/13/2021 7:55:36 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: blueplum

Independence it is, then.


12 posted on 04/13/2021 7:56:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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How does Puerto Rico benefit us? Unless there’s a very good answer, expel it. “Once a State, always a State” does not apply to territories (e.g., the Philippines).


13 posted on 04/13/2021 7:56:42 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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And meanwhile, Hawaii should be independent too, restore the monarchy.


14 posted on 04/13/2021 7:56:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Agree.


15 posted on 04/13/2021 7:59:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: cll

Ping.


16 posted on 04/13/2021 7:59:48 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: Jonty30

Can you imagine if we had made the Philippines a state, with now over 100 million people, almost 3 times that of California.


17 posted on 04/13/2021 8:01:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I’m from Canada and I didn’t have to show anything, other than my passport. I went twice.

I didn’t even have to answer any questions.

Maybe it is because I lookso innocent


18 posted on 04/13/2021 8:02:53 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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The House would have about 140 Filipino representatives. Your country would have been finished budgetwise.


19 posted on 04/13/2021 8:04:22 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: blueplum

One way I would allow PR in the country. Make it the sixth borough of New York City.


20 posted on 04/13/2021 8:07:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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