On the recordDecember 9, 2014
When my mom and my dad and approximately a million Puerto Ricans came to this country as American citizens...
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Gutierrez compares past immigrant experiences to current immigration issues.
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Congress must immediately end its inherently colonial territorial rule over Puerto Rico, because it violates America's values of democracy, equal justice under the law, and government by the consent of the governed.
With lesser margins: laws are passed, judicial and executive appointments are confirmed and politicians, including presidents, are elected.
There can be no freedom without popular sovereignty; in America the people govern.