AOC, Dems rally to free Puerto Rico of its ‘colonial bonds,’ give it statehood option
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Democrats rallied to support passage of legislation on Thursday that would end Puerto Rico's status as a "colonial" territory of the U.S., and give it three new options.
"Today, for the first time in our nation’s history, the United States will acknowledge its role as a colonizing force and Puerto’s Rico’s status as an extended colony," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said on the House floor. Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.
Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, compared U.S. control over the island to British control over America in its colonial beginnings.
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