Jenniffer González-Colón: “The ocean is resilient, and we can help it heal, but we cannot afford to wait.”

Under the terms of the Freely Associated agreements, compact citizens can migrate and work in the United States but they are not U.S. citizens or nationals.

We are grateful to Chairman Westerman for stewardship of COFA renewal so far.

Trump was only focused on what’s happening in Mexico and in the United States, on that border.

Despite our compact agreement, the Freely Associated States are independent nations, that if we in the United States fail to remain engaged and do not renew our economic agreement with them, there will be nothing in the way to stop…