Luis Gutiérrez: “We have got to design a system that doesn't cause their ultimate death because we are the beacon of hope.”

So, don't let anyone tell you that statehood will somehow diminish our cultural pride and heritage.

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…

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.

We are natural born U.S. citizens and want an equal seat at the table in the federal government that writes and implements the laws that we live under.