If passed, a historic new bill drafted by House Democrats would allow Puerto Ricans to choose in a vote between statehood, independence, or sovereignty with free association. NBC News’ Isa Gutiérrez speaks with Puerto Ricans about what political status is best for the island.
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#TopStoryWithTomLlamas #PuertoRico #DeColonization
Free Puerto Rico from the stranglehold of imperialism
Es tiempo de darle la independencia a Puerto Rico y fue se pongan a trabajar.
You can change the status of the island, but unless you eliminate it’s ghetto culture you will not have a big change. Right now, some of the decent people that live in the island prefer to leave because of its ghetto culture. The island is full of troublemakers, most of which belong to gangs and are junkies, those that are decent decide on leaving because the just want to be left in peace. There is also a bullying culture on the Island, which takes place at work or when you are outside with your family. Due to all these reasons people prefer to leave and never come back. Truth be told i do not blame them, who wants to be around a ghetto paradise?
The world is coming
to an end
so who cares
The TRUTH is Puerto Ricans are GREAT AMERICANS. The TRUTH is if Puerto Rico separates from America she will fail.
Good lucky hope they can make without usa help
Yes let it go. It will be like DR. Girls will be free.
Puerto Rico will fall behind Cuba as an Independent country. I’m sorry and I know that Puerto Ricans are going to come after me but I lived there I wouldn’t want to imagine Puerto Rico without assistance from the US. Many Latin American countries would love to be able to come and work in the US without a work permit. Puerto Rico has never been self governed , not that it can’t but the corruption would be even worse. There are a lot of talented people living on the island. Anyway, the Puerto Ricans should decide but they should let Brexit be an example. It should be well thought out. Buena suerte!
🤔 HONESTLY 🤔!!!… PUERTO RICO HAS TO BE CRAZY TO PICK SOVEREIGNTY & INDEPENDENCE 🤦!!!!… STATEHOOD IS THE BEST OPTION 👍!!!… YES IT WILL BE TAXES AND GEOGRAPHY CHANGES(moving poor people out and middle class & rich moving in) BUT YOU WILL HAVE MILITARY PROTECTION 🪖 AND ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY 🔌 AND MORE MONEY IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AND PLENTY OF AID ⛑️ DURING EMERGENCY (🌀 hurricane season 🌀)… JUST HAVE TO GET USED TO CHANGE A LITTLE 🇺🇲 AMERICA MOVES FAST, BUT PUERTO RICO SHOULD KEEP UP🤞🤞?????
They can have their freedom.. for all our national debt 🤌
How would that work with those in PR National Guard and Ft Buchanan? Would they just be forced retirement and the base be decommissioned.
They just hit communism they are trying to get rid off of Puerto Rico they need more money to make Their own deals this government sucks like I said it’s communism government
That Ocasio it is communist be careful with her
I’m hoping they will become a state.
For those ignorant Americans-I am an American myself as are all Puerto Ricans-Puerto Rico pays billions in taxes. Not only that, but the island did not choose to be a colony, remember that.
Only Congress in Washington had a say in changing her status and all the wrongdoings done upon the island.
Look at the Politician’s that hid water and supplies from the People after the Hurricanes. Those are the People causing ALL the Trouble. #DrainTheSwamp al carajo
Guam 🇬🇺 is probably watching this closely.
Why add another state when the 50 states are ALL FALLING APART: HOMELESSNESS, BABY KILLING BABY AND TALK ABOUT IT LIKE IT A GAME, INFLATION AT AN ALL TIME HIGH, NO JOBS, STUDENT LOANS NOT BEEN HANDLE WELL OWING MORE THEN YOU MAKE FROM A JOB THAT IS NOT EVEN IN YOUR FIELD OF STUDY😩😩😩😩, POLITION CAN EVEN GET ALONE TO DO THE JOB THEY WERE VOTED INTO IT JUST SAD WE ADD PROBLEM ON ARE PLATES, WHEN WE HAVE CLEARLY RUN OUT OF ROOM ON ARE CURRENT PLATE TO HOLD ARE PROBLEMS NOW.
None of these options will fix the problems of the Puerto Rican People. It is just a distraction! Their GDP is lower than any US state. They have about a 45% poverty rate and a population of about 3 million (3 times some states). Take a look at the current Puerto Rican government and how corrupt, dysfunctional, and debt ridden they are, before you say anything. Congress is responsible for overseeing the government of the US territories, maybe they should be looking at how to fix the Puerto Rican government and the plight of the people in Puerto Rico!
Remember its just a draft 🥹
Puerto Rico will never be able to survive on it’s own.
Puert Rico would turn into a fkng slum without the welfare of the U.S
@DELEGADO 13 Drug cartels would take them over more if the U.S leaves.
Even if they become a state, they will always be Puerto Rico. Stop complaining or decide already,they sound like hypocrites.
If they become independent and loose their citizenship they’ll likely be very disappointed. Just it has happened to Cubans who were largely affected when they weren’t given free entry anymore.
☀️🕊
Man, just make it a statehood already. Boricuas are intertwine in the U.S. Just like DC should also be a state.
DC creation comes directly from the US Constitution, which provides that the district, “not exceeding 10 Miles square,” would “become the Seat of the Government of the United States.”
Hopefully they are OK with all the added ingredients that independence carries, no more federal aid, no citizenship from birth and visa requirements among others. No picking and choosing allowed portoricans. 🤣
Puerto Ricans get your independence !!!!
You ppl think it’s a privilege to be a colony of the empire? PR is just a steeping stool of the USA! Being
Colonized makes you proud? The island full of drugs and violence as a USA colony you had no electricity for years in some areas after the hurricane thousands dead with no medical help! You better on your own than being oppressed!
they should’ve never sold their land to amerikkka …..
People chill it is not convenient for US to let us be independent we are too valuable for them when it comes to trading.
You also forget about the Pharmaceutical cartel that enjoys doing business in PR.
God bless p r 😳
Everyone wanna be independent to they have to pay for it lol 😂
What they don’t know it we’ll become a communist country .. it’s in nations agenda
It become a easy target as a poorest state, and a third world country
Leave Africa also
I am all for Puerto Rico getting a choice. Guam should get a similar offer too! All the protectorates deserve the chance to choose their own fate…along with the chance to have representation.
Well if they become an independent nation they lose US citizenship, Social Security, Welfare, Food Stamps and billions in other financial assistance. If a hurricane hits and destroys the Island FEMA isn’t showing up. The US military isn’t showing up too curfew the population. The Island would become very unmanageable. With all they get, they can’t manage the Island as is. What they need is honest government. Good luck.
Didn’t encitives made it worst for Puerto Rico?
Why am I not surprised about the GOP not supporting statehood.
America cannot say they stand for freedom if they continue to be an imperialist power.
Let the people of PR choose for themselves, and if they vote to become a state I say Welcome! At long last may you FINALLY be treated with the dignity and respect you deserve. Much love to the island and it’s people!
I hope they can become a state because they ARE citizens, but they aren’t reaping the benefits because they’re technically a colony, which is absurd in the 21st century. I hope they vote for statehood and get it so they can vote in their own state government so they can finally have a voice in Congress and so they can benefit from all of the taxes we take from them without representation. Whatever Puerto Rico chooses, I wish her luck!
Offer China a naval base and you’ll all be as rich as Japan.
Puerto Rico sin USA nos vamos ajoder.si ahora con la ayudan de estas unidos y estamos jodido pare en que quieten ser como Haity y Cuba.
Tired of these kkk white Supremecist out here acting a fool
I am Puerto Rican who lives in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 and the woman with the business is Dominican not Puerto Rican 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ but some people here like food stamps, Medicaid and all that from the USA 🇺🇸, others like independence and others statehood, we are all divided
Yea, they’ll let em have independence and then turn the island into a precursor to the fate of Taiwan
There are 999 comments. I just want to be the 1,000th
Ask someone of Puerto Rican heritage, what I don’t want to see is Puerto Rico turn into another hawaii. Where the locals are marginalized into the corners of the land, impoverished into lower class living, and most of the island pretty much gets dominated by rich, greedy owners who then want to price the locals out of their own homes, and replace them with other rich, greedy individuals.
Yes! As someone who grew up on Maui and had to leave because it became too sad to witness the Hawaiians harassed for fishing their lands and for things harmless as sleeping in the bushes they were forced to live in. Even working 2 jobs double minimum wage that are skilled labor.. it’s almost impossible to provide enough to make ends meet. It’s so sad to watch Hawaiians ran off by cops with batons in their hands for fishing at night all because their sacred ancestral fishing grounds was bought by Bezos. Once not too long ago anyone could drive a loop around the island then Operah bought here secondary mansion. Now you have to take an almost 2 hour drive to get to what was always only 10 minutes away. They have no rights they have no freedom they have no future on the islands of their ancestral home. They are forced out of their home and their culture is destroyed repackaged and sold to tourist as an idea. They cut down the forest poisoned the land deforested the hills until runoff killed the entire reefs turned the beaches into hotels/golf courses. They made it 2 million minimum just to be considered a human being. It’s why I moved to PR and am building food forest to grow a future of independence for the Island!
Oohh yeah hopefully it becomes like Cuba and Logan Paul gets got
Can Puerto Rico sustain itself after a hurricane tho?
Should join with Cuba 🇨🇺 to teach the US 🇺🇸 a lesson. Then merge to become Cubarico.
Independencia para Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
If Puerto Rico were to tax the rich moving in to the land they would make millions
Puerto Rico needs independence
De colonize Puerto Rico we can govern ourselves
Independencia
Maybe the South will rise again and de-colonize from the north!
‘sovereignty with free association’ sounds like Puerto Rico is going to America’s side chick. 😂
if the ideas is independent and AOC is going to be deported i said yes,send her back
geraldo too
The US did his job through colonization they inject that fear among puertoricans. Now they think that we are nothing without them, smaller countries are there and they are independent. We will not be another Cuba or Venezuela we have the resources to get a better Puerto Rico but of course we have to use them in the right way. Learning from other countries and don’t making those mistakes.
La verdad los Puerto riqueños son unos mantenidos su Isla no tiene nada que dar sin en cambio ellos piden ayuda para todo 3so seria genial que Puerto Rico sea una Isla independiente para que su gente se ponga a trabajar
Bola de mantenidos
Buenos para nada
1:02 every thing is considered Communist if it goes against u.s interest, the u.s is the biggest dictator/ emperialist of the world order , even Hawaii was annexed , stolen from the Hawaiians,
i thought Colonization, Slavery were 19th century concepts. Glad that the USA is keeping such traditions still alive
puetro rico is like blm sec.8 not needed
Puerto Rico is just as corrupt as DC
Ce qhe ehs mehor la ehonomia 😂😂😂😂
lester I gave all the questions and answers to hillary
Puerto Rico literally translates to Rich/Poor __Puerto > poor __Rico > rich
…when the spanish invaded and stole it they didn’t even care enough to give it a proper name
Do it Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico’s neighbors Cuba, Haiti, and Dominican Republic are independent countries. Look how well they are doing. 🤔
We need leaders. Just like in the USA with the so called black community they killed and imprisoned all our freedom fighters, great minds.
Do we really need another Bronx?
Let em go. Let them be there own country. They won’t last a week until they come crawling back.
Good way for me to listen to some Espanyol. Unfortunately this issue seemeth intractable. It’s like damned if they do; damned if they don’t
They should be granted statehood and afterwards they should teach English and only English in schools to establish an English speaking generation… Ps: no, it wouldn’t be racist, because we’d be replacing one European tongue for another.
Let them associate with China it will be a win win situation
If they’re going to rely on crypto and tax haven status for their economic survival, they’re screwed.
It would be a liberal Democrat vote. Adding two senators and more than one congress post. The GOP would fight statehood. The original island purpose, naval activity, is no longer being used. They receive more benefits than benefits received for the US.
Listen, there are islands in the Caribbean smaller than PR and they are independent. It won’t be easy but it can be done. Just remember though, once you leave the US, there won’t be any looking back and be ready to face tough times.
They are scare to be independent, no more welfare, so call American benefits, and freedom to travel to the US.
State of America.
Statehood is a process that is not likely to succeed anytime soon. It’s not just up to the federal government. States also have to ratify
Remember the game winning play in the movie Little Giants? Lmao
Cut them loose no more welfare.
Puerto Rico should just become a state
STATE 51
the us don’t want PR 2b the 52 state because it will cost too much to bring up PR economy to regular standards, they see hurricanes as a major problem so they don’t want to invest, next is the culture and dual language…. I don’t want 2 sound controversial but Congress still thinks like in the 50’s and don’t get me started on ethnicity ans skin color! final thoughts: The US wants PR as a colony but not as a state unless they found oil!
Let them be independent, and learn how to run a country. Manage (a budget or lack of) and setup a military. Watch China moves in and make them sign off their future generations future.
Puerto Rico have also the chance of return back to be a part of Spain
As a Authonomy Comunity. Like the Canary islands.
With their own gobern.Senators and Deputies in Madrid. And been part of the European Comunity.
And with the Euro Coin.
Independence is not a great deal for Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico citizens don’t pay US federal income taxes but federal govt of US do provide financial support to Puerto Rico if situation calls for it. As a part of the US, they don’t need to extensively in their security other than bare minimal as needed. Some may argue independence matters but reality is that it doesn’t. Look around you, Australia, almost all European nations of NATO , Canada, etc, are subject to US intervention in foreign policy anyway. Every time US screams at a specific nation, every and each one of them have to follow the same show. There is no real sovereignty even if you’re like the one of the top 10 economic powerhouse and military powerhouse, there is only the US and everyone else.
Why are Puerto Ricans so scared of being a sovereign country, why do they think they’re going to fail at being independent?
Let’s be real, nothing will come out of this.
Not a mention of the Jones Act? Or the original storming of Congress, by actual Puerto Rican patriots? News can be so superficial as to be actually unintentional propaganda. 1 leader of the independence movement was tortured with intentional radiation exposure by the us government for years. look it up, its real
La Isla del espanto!!!!!
I’m glad they showed a black Puerto Rican.
If it becomes Independent, Dominicans would have no where to run to
I would like to stay on the Island but everyday cost are sky rocketing. The government is allowing frecuent rises on essential utilities that is keeping hard working people poor on a check to check basis. We are being pushed out while wealthy people are welcome almost tax free. It isn’t fair.
They are probably sick of the media feigning interest in them as much as congress, like this reporter’s obviously faked and forced accent when she says Puerto Rico.
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