Risk’s minders should have advised him against this
ill-concieved statement. PR is Spanish speaking and
that isn’t about to change for anyone.
Last I checked speaking English was not a federal law
I agree, that was a dumb thing to say, and it only goes to show he knows nothing about the place.
I agree, that was a dumb thing to say, and it only goes to show he knows nothing about the place.
New Mexico was able to transition to mostly-English speaking.
It’s NOT impossible.
Just have PR do English in the elementary schools.
We can revisit statehood for Puerto Rico in another generation. By then, the way things are going, we will all be speaking Spanish anyway so it wouldn’t make sense to have an English requirement./s