VOX: Puerto Ricans have voted in favor of statehood. Now it’s up to Congress.
Congress hasn’t taken steps to admit Puerto Rico as the 51st state.
In The New York Times, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus, a professor at Columbia Law School wrote:
Time’s up on pondering the political and economic consequences of Puerto Rican statehood, let alone being opposed to it. It has been 122 years. You don’t annex a place, make it your colony for nearly a century and a quarter, and then reject its people’s vote for statehood. The time for Puerto Rican statehood is now.
