Many politicians in Puerto Rico will not have high hopes that the pending White House report will deal with the decades-old debate over its political relationship with the United States.
The report will focus on jump starting the economy on the island, create jobs and clamp down on the high crime wave hitting Puerto Rico.
Senator Eduardo Bhatia, met with officials in Washington, D.C. this month to find that the report excluded any resolution to finally decide the status of Puerto Rico.
He notice that President Barack Obama Task Force on Puerto Rico status has kept a tight lid on the contents of its delayed report.
What Barack Obama task force will actually on the
"misuse of federal funds and how to improve monitoring."
he said.
Senator Eduardo Bhatia feels the White House
"will be very careful on the issue of status."
"In general, it will be about everything. On the subject of status, there will be some legal analysis but I don''t expect there will be options. No one is going to be pleased 100 percent on the subject of status," he said.
Former President Bill Clinton created the task force through an executive order in the 1990's, giving it the mandate to clarify both the status options available to Puerto Rico under the U.S. Constitution and the process by which those options could be made a reality.
The report also reaffirmed that the alternative status options for the island were statehood or sovereignty, whether as an independent nation or in a free association with the United States.
According to the reports, Congress under the Territorial Clause of the US Constitution were so expansive that the federal government could cede Puerto Rico to another nation. The reports explained detail information on the constitutional limitations that Puerto Rico would confront as sovereign country or as an independent nation. For instance if Puerto Rico ever became an independent nation, the U.S. citizenship of its citizens would not be guaranteed.
The people in the U.S. should demand justice for the people of Puerto Rico. This current limbo in the common wealth of the U.S. should finally have a choice to vote for their own representatives. As long as this limbo continues the People of Puerto Rico will continue to be considered second class citizens. The people in the U.S. should call Congress and demand that Puerto Rico status be resolved finally. Allowing a true democratic process to evolve and also allowing the people of Puerto Rico to finally decide there futures.
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