Luis Gutiérrez: “We cannot do it ourselves. We know we need the community, we need their support and help.”

Pass the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act as soon as possible and together we can help make America a more perfect Union.

The United States Congress, which imposes rules, out of our control, which make it impossible to get our act together.

Congress must grant us the equal rights and equal responsibilities that we have earned with the blood of our veterans and the tears of their mothers, wives, children and families.

To turn around and tell voters to go back to the drawing board and re-define multiple other options which the majority has rejected three times in the last eight years in favor of statehood, would not only be insulting to us, but…