Luis Gutiérrez: “If they feel afraid to report crimes against themselves, as the domestic violence examples have so sharply suggested…”

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.

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

If you really believe in democracy, justice, government by the consent of the governed, you must not hesitate any further or give any more excuses.

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…