Gregorio Sablan: “Cutting the prospective foreign workforce in half will have an immediate and profoundly negative impact on the Mariana's…”

The explicit reasoning behind the most famous of the cases, Downes v. Bidwell in 1901 was that the new territories are inhabited by alien races that could not be governed by Anglo-Saxon principles.

I mentioned that the CNMI is facing financial conditions that make our commonwealth again acutely vulnerable to Chinese Communist Party exploitation.

I also would think that the provisions of H.R. 3268 will help move forward the exercise of free and fair elections in the territories.

Today's witnesses will be discussing H. Res. 279, which would place the U.S. House of Representatives on record as rejecting the racist reasoning of the Insular Cases.