An Update on Puerto Rico's Political Status by PierluisiCongress
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Pierluisi subraya la importancia de resolver el estatus de la Isla ante el Congreso de Estados Unidos. Wednesday, July 23, 2014.
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Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla late Wednesday asserted that Puerto Ricans could continue to obtain U.S. citizenship by birth if Puerto Rico became a sovereign nation in an association with the U.S. — a status that members of his ‘Commonwealth’ party are calling “Sovereign Commonwealth.”
To back up his contention, the Governor argued that the U.S. citizenship Puerto Ricans have now was negotiated between Puerto Rico and the United States when they agreed on the Constitution of theCommonwealth government in 1952. He suggested that if it was done then, it could be done again.
Congress actually first began conferring citizenship based on birth in Puerto Rico in the 1917 Federal law for the governing of the territory. The 1950-2 process also covered provisions of that law not replaced by the territorial constitution.
There was no renegotiation of citizenship, as Garcia Padilla contended. Additionally, representatives of the president of the United States and leaders of Congress made it clear that the territory’s political status was not being changed — as it would if Puerto Rico became a nation.
Garcia Padilla made the statement five days after his Secretary of Justice, Cesar Miranda, claimed, “The grant of citizenship to Puerto Ricans is irrevocable. This is one of those situations where a later Congress cannot waive something that was previously done.”
Garcia was reacting to the contention of other “Commonwealth” party leaders that Puerto Ricans could continue to receive citizenship under “free association” (nationhood in an association with the U.S. that either nation could end).
Miranda was trying to rebut a brief filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in court which noted that the U.S. Supreme Court “has found that citizenship is not” a right in “unincorporated territories,” such as Puerto Rico, and Congress could determine whether to grant it or not grant it.
Despite Garcia’s assertion, the Obama, George W. Bush, and Clinton Administrations have all rejected the idea of granting U.S. citizenship based on birth in a nation of Puerto Rico even if the nation is temporarily associated with the U.S.
The U.S. House of Representatives and the leaders of both national political parties of the U.S. Senate committee with jurisdiction over the status of territories have also dismissed the notion.
In its court brief, the U.S. Justice Department recalled the case of the Philippines, when the U.S. territory also called “the Commonwealth” became a nation. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the congressional withdrawal of the U.S. nationality of Filipinos alive before Filipino nationhood.
The Court explained that, if all of the people of the Philippines remained U.S. nationals under Filipino nationhood, the Philippines would not really be a nation.
The only statuses under which Congress cannot stop granting U.S. citizenship are statehood and incorporated territory status. An “incorporated territory” is a permanent part of the U.S. — instead of a possession, as Puerto Rico is — and will definitely become a State.
The U.S. Justice Department also made this clear in its court brief strongly opposing a claim that residents of the territories that have not been made parts of the U.S., “unincorporated territories,” are citizens by virtue of the Constitution of the U.S. — as maintained by Garcia’s ‘Commonwealth’ party — instead of by laws that can be more easily changed.
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A central Florida television station (Channel 9) was told that the Government of Puerto Rico’s office for providing services to citizens of the area “helped about 8,000 Puerto Rican immigrants … establish businesses in the State” during its just-marked first year of operation.
The incredible claim regarding the two-person office contrasts with Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla’s promise when the office opened that it would help direct investment to Puerto Rico.
Perhaps because he called the territory a “country” at the time, the TV station erred in referring to Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens by birth, as “immigrants.”
But, because they are citizens, the office can fulfill another of the goals for it that Garcia Padilla identified when it opened: registering residents of the State of Puerto Rican origin to vote in Florida. There, unlike in Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans can vote in elections for the president and vice-president of the United States, U.S. senators , and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives who can vote on the passage of legislation.
The office director is a former Florida Democratic Party campaign operative whose work experience fits in well with the goal of voter registration but has irked some Republicans in the State.
Puerto Ricans have been voting with airline tickets for statehood in droves during the past few years in particular. Well over one hundred leave the territory for the greater opportunities and benefits of living in a State every day. More go to Florida than any other State and more to to central Florida than any other part of the State. There are now more than 900,000 people of Puerto Rican origin in Florida.
Most who move do so because of the territorial economy, which has been failing at a faster rate during the past eight and a half years, after decades of falling behind economic growth in the States. Puerto Rico has lost a reported 21% of its businesses since 2006 — while the Commonwealthgovernment says it is spending the tax dollars of residents of the territory to help citizens of Florida establish businesses.
The Commonwealth government, which is slashing services to residents of the territory, hiking the taxes and fees that they must pay, and still can’t make ends meet, is taxing residents of Puerto Rico a bit more to provide services to central Florida taxpayers that are the responsibility of State, country, and municipal governments in the area.
The office has even filled in for the Federal government in providing services to citizens in central Florida. It spent many days of its first year of operation and brought on extra staff to help middle income Floridians obtain new Federal subsidies for private healthcare insurance under ‘Obamacare’ that were not funded in Puerto Rico because of its territory status.
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