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Pedro Pierluisi: “Discussion of status is a way to ignore and to keep ignoring the real issue: denial of voting rights, denial of…”

On the recordJuly 31, 2013
Discussion of status is a way to ignore and to keep ignoring the real issue: denial of voting rights, denial of participating in our nation's democratic process and denial of economic equality and opportunities for Hispanic Americans in Puerto Rico.
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Pedro Pierluisi
Democratic · Puerto Rico

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Pierluisi argues that discussing status distracts from voting rights and economic equality issues.

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