A May 1998 study by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) tracked household hunger among legal Latino and Asian immigrants in California, Texas and Illinois. Finding 79% of households interviewed to be food insecure, PHR called 'the cuts against individuals who are in the U.S. legally and who pay taxes... a serious human rights violation.'
Impact of welfare cuts on food security among legal immigrants.
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While they are quick to report that statehood won the November 2020 referendum with 52% of the vote, they routinely omit that a mere 55% of the Puerto Rican electorate took part.
Statehood means complete protection of the U.S. Constitution to more than 3 million Americans.
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…
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