Luis Gutiérrez: “I congratulate the Edward Hines Jr. Medical Center Nurses for their invaluable work caring for our nation's veterans”

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

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.

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.

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.