On the recordJune 15, 2021
I ask you, what more does it take to make the will of my people be Heard?
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Gutierrez questions what else is needed for Puerto Rico's statehood to be recognized.
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Gutierrez, Luis, Former Representative, Illinois' 4th District, Chicago, Illinois.
We have an opportunity to rectify Puerto Rico's long-standing colonial status which has resulted in its people being treated as second-class citizens.
There can be no freedom without popular sovereignty; in America the people govern.
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…