Luis Gutiérrez: “They're not all gangbangers. They're not all drug dealers. They're not all murderers.”

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…

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.

We, the US Citizens of Puerto Rico; hereby let it be known, have had extensive patience awaiting for the United States Congress to resolve the status of Puerto Rico!