Luis Gutiérrez: “It would be a shame if this Congress were to end without heeding the voice of the people.”

The Puerto Rico Self-Determination Act of 2021 represents the only genuine democratic legislation about Puerto Rico's status before the 117th Congress.

Do not be deceived by the fact that only because we speak Spanish and we enjoy the freedoms of this United States, that the majority will immediately choose to be one way or the other; democrat or republican.

With lesser margins: laws are passed, judicial and executive appointments are confirmed and politicians, including presidents, are elected.

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…