Should Puerto Rico become a state? Millions will vote this November | The Big Deal
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Puerto Rico's political future will once again be on the ballot this November. For the first time, the island's current status as a U.S. territory will not be an option on the non-binding referendum. Ybeth Bruzual, political anchor for Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, Florida joins Errol Louis to discuss Puerto Rico's political future.
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I think they deserve to become a state. But I don't think that Congress wants to let them in. The alternative is letting Puerto Rico going independent and I don't think that's great for the United States as a whole.
The PIP would love to hear independence.
@revinhatol saying that the Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño would like to be independent is like saying the sky is blue. Obviously an Independence Party would want to be independent
The only way is joining the union, those who want independence are just a few rats here and there always complaining but enjoying the benefits
No
Abolish the Jones Act!!! Which unfairly affects overseas states and territories like Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, etc. where prices are higher for food and goods!
We’ve, the people of Puerto Rico, have voted several times for PR to become a state. We’ve been a territory for over 100yrs, fought in all major American wars, and yet millions are disenfranchised from voting for the president!!! It’s a shame
It’s ridiculous that congress doesn’t deem this an important issue so I would love to see Puerto Rico to become a state or even their own nation. 🇵🇷
Puerto Rico, DC, American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Island, and Northern Mariana Island should all be states.
I agree and Greenland 🇬🇱 too but I don’t the danish would give that up 😅
Puerto Rico, maybe. But the others? No. Their populations are much too small. The least populous State presently is Wyoming which has just under 600,000 people. So, unless you were to increase the total members of the House from 435 to 2 thousand+, I would not support the rest.
@@jstrahan2 I support doubling the size of the House of Representatives because 435 is too small to represent a country of 345,426,571. So I support uncapping the house.
Also, DC has a bigger population than Wyoming & Vermont.
@@theyoungcentrist9110 : True, but DC came from Maryland. Constitutionally, it can't become a State until the Maryland legislature approves. Then Congress can vote on it. I do not support DC Statehood. I do support retrocession back to Maryland. Virginia recovered its DC portion this way. Also, even doubling would not be enough to get those other territories Statehood. You would have to at least quadruple the size of the House. That would be enough for Guam. For the others (besides PR), you would need a House of 4-5 thousand. I don't believe a 2000 member House of Representatives is feasible, let alone 5,000. Until the House number is changed, I believe a 500,000 population is the minimum.
@@jstrahan2The thing is DC residents doesn’t retrocession and Maryland has no interest annexing DC land with 57% of Marylands opposed to the idea of retrocession & 51% of them support DC statehood. The only alternative now is admitting DC as a state as DC doesn’t want to be apart Maryland and Maryland neither wants them. 5000 representative is not feasible right now and would be fine with increasing it to 793 or 931 representatives with them also elected from multi-member district through a proportional representation system. I think we can add Guam, Northern Mariana Island, Virgin Island and American Samoa as states because we can still give them at least 1 Representative & 2 Senators as it is spelled out in the constitution.
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 should become a state.
And another thing that I forgot to say we never did belong to America we were sold to America that was not a where was not 100% Puerto Rican you don't know nothing about Puerto Rico we were sold to America so let's get it straight being with America we will never get nothing we will never get respect like that we need to be our own self show shows our true roots in true love and show how people show the world that we could do the same thing as them thank you and sorry if I offended anybody but I'll speak the truth I love my history of Puerto Rico and I lived there and I was born there and the first thing I do is always check on my Island and always read about my history which not a lot of people know about their own histories we were sold to America if you don't know your facts look it up on the history books just go to Puerto Rico and look it up in Puerto Rico and I promise you you will find that we were sold to America
"What do you like of Puerto Rico?"
"Everything."
C'mon...
¡Puerto Rico Libre!
come here and work
Yes. And that will happen by joining the Union.
Puerto Rico should become independent or free association. If the US takes over our island then we will lose everything such as our Spanish, anthem, island, and more.
I would not as American citizen want them to have free association. That's pretty much just giving them their cake and then them eat it too. The only Free Association States are tiny and we don't mind it but we are not giving millions of people Free Association status. Either independent or be a state nothing else.
State hood
No taxation without representation. Statehood for Puerto Rico, Pacific Islands, and Washington D.C. No one the Government calls American should go without representation in the Senate and Congress. To do so goes against our very founding principles, because the American colonies were taxed without representation in a British parliament. The Federal Government cannot continue to make decisions about these places and people without input from the people that live there. If the people of these places don't want to, so be it. But to not at least offer, that would be un-American.
No to statehood
@@VMan29397 Why?
Purtoriquenos have dithering over statehood for decades.
You couldn’t find anybody against Puerto Rican statehood? Or did you just decide not to add a dissenting opinion intentionally?
Nice journalism
*dissenting
Well majority is pro statehood so idk what u want
@@tafabeatz Since when is 28% a majority. That's the result of the last referendum. Because if you do your math 52% of 54% is 28%. And remember they are non-binding referendum so all they can do is gauge popular support for one of the status options
@@tafabeatz I want impartiality in news media.
Young Brenda Lopez Thomas Taylor Cynthia
Shouldn't the referendum include the status-quo as an option?
No because people are sick and tired of these status quo. Why do you think the party that's currently supporting the status quo is at the bottom of the Polls
@@VMan29397 I'm saying that it should be an option, not that people should vote for it
@@EdwardFominykh It shouldn't be an option because it was a terrible option to begin with. It only exists because the FBI blackmailed the first governor of Puerto Rico luis munos marin That if he didn't cut it out with the independence talk they would leak to the public that he was a chronic opium addict as a teen. You realize how many people suffered because of that decision the fact he sold his own people out to save his own hide.
Independent Nation, rest of US does not need another economic basket case.
Have you ever considered that their status as a territory and not a full fledged state, along with the Jones Act, has contributed to their economic depression? Also should we apply your standard to the Republican states in the Deep South who as a whole take more in federal dollars than pay back?
East Origon, Upstate Newyork, Long Island, Poutorico, DC, should be States,
DC should never become a state. It’s sole design and purpose is not being a state. Its a city and a district.
Good grief! Learn some English. Your average Puerto Rican 2nd grader writes better than you!
No!
Ivette spoke my heart ❤️, our people can die in the military but can’t pick the leader ? My abuela and family live on the island , Statehood would help but it would also hurt . I wish the US Government would take this glorified poll into account but we know they won’t
It does more harm then good
I wouldn’t want Puerto Rico to be a state of the USA.
Why not?
@@gustavanavitate2301 I wouldn’t want Puerto Rico to become a state because to me the island is my home, with my language, flag, anthem. I feel if it becomes a state of the USA, we would loose that and it will be just like any other state of the USA, no longer special.
@@marcotorres8779have you seen any of the other states? They all can’t stfu about their identity and culture, you won’t lose anything you’ll just be gaining
@@adampica9815 That’s what they say, but look at Hawaii how native Hawaiians are becoming a minority in their own land. I would t want that for Puerto Rico
@@marcotorres8779 What about Alaska?
Yuk
Yuk?
Spanish reunification should also be an option . It is a political view on the island and has been brought before the spanish Government as well