Kevyn

There are five inhabited US territories: American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Apart from American Samoa, people born in the territories are US citizens and pay federal taxes such as Medicare and social security. Each territory sends a delegate to the House who can debate legislation and sit on committees but is not able to actually v**e. This anomaly illuminates America’s long unaddressed colonial history that leaves five territories floating in constitutional limbo, their residents – most of them people of color – effectively treated as second-class citizens.
These territories should be made states, or at the very least DC and Puerto Rico. This can be done with a simple majority v**e in the house and senate. It may be necessary to do away with the senate filibuster taking a lesson from republicans who did so to stack our courts with under qualified right wing activist judges.

wilpharm

ho hum....

currahee506

What can they produce for the United States to make them "valuable assets?
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wilpharm

its just kevvies daily chin-dribble....all they can produce is Democrat v**es

coelacanth Loc: Michigan swamp

The Giant Wet Dream of the progs is the destruction of the Constitution. This would be the death knell.

Kickaha Loc: Nebraska

D.C. cannot be made a state without a constitutional amendment. The others could apply for statehood under the process that served for creating states since the formation of the country. If memory serves me correctly, Puerto Rico has had v**es since at least the fifties on whether to become a state, remain a territory or become an independent nation. No position has received enough v**es to move on from its current status.