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.
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The government of Puerto Rico ran a Ponzi Scheme for years.
3: PR could always be rejoined with the totally Hispanic Spain.
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.
And how much crap did President Trump catch for calling out all the corruption, only to be proven 100% correct on all of it.
I used to tell people on Guam that the current status was better than ether statehood or independence. It was a hard sell.
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.
The best option would befit them to have open borders towards the US to welcome tourists, just like the Philippines.
These idiots only care because they want the two liberal Senators they would get out of statehood.
They can go pound sand.
Phillipines. I had to show a departure ticket to get into the country.
Trade PR to China in exchange for all our debt they hold.
Independence it is, then.
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).
And meanwhile, Hawaii should be independent too, restore the monarchy.
Agree.
Ping.
Can you imagine if we had made the Philippines a state, with now over 100 million people, almost 3 times that of California.
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
The House would have about 140 Filipino representatives. Your country would have been finished budgetwise.
One way I would allow PR in the country. Make it the sixth borough of New York City.
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