April 13, 2021

Hon. Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington DC 20515

Hon. Charles Schumer
Senate Majority Leader
U.S. Senate
Washington DC 20510

Hon. Kevin McCarthy
House Republican Leader
U.S. House of Representative
Washington DC 20515

Hon. Mitch McConnell
Senate Republican Leader
U.S. Senate
Washington DC 20510

Member of the Natural Resources Committee, U.S. House of Representatives
Democtrats:
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva, Chairman, Arizona 3rd District Official
Hon. Grace Napolitano, California 32nd District Official
Hon. Jim Costa, California 16th District Official
Hon. Gregorio Sablan, Northern Mariana Islands Official
Hon. Jared Huffman, California 2nd District Official
Hon. Alan Lowenthal, California 47th District Official
Hon. Ruben Gallego, Arizona 7th District Official
Hon. Joe Neguse, Colorado 2nd District Official
Hon. Mike Levin, California 49th District Official
Hon. Katie Porter, California’s 45th District Official
Hon. Teresa Leger Fernández, New Mexico Official
Hon. Nydia M. Velázquez, New York 7th District Official
Hon. Diana De Gette, Colorado 1st District Official
Hon. Julia Brownley, California’s 26th District Official
Hon. Debbie Dingell, Michigan 12th District Official
Hon. A. Donald McEachin, Virginia 4th District Official
Hon. Darren Soto, Florida 9th District Official
Hon. Michael San Nicolas, Guam Official
Hon. Jesús G. “Chuy” García, Illinois 4th District Official
Hon. Ed Case, Hawaii 1st District Official
Hon. Betty McCollum, Minnesota’s 4th District Official
Hon. Steve Cohen, Tennessee’s 9th District Official
Hon. Paul Tonko, New York 20th District Official
Hon. Rashida Tlaib, Michigan’s 13th District Official
Hon. Doris Matsui, California’s 6th District Official
Hon. Lori Trahan, Massachusetts’ 3rd District Official

Republicans:
Hon. Bruce Westerman, Arkansas 4th District Official
Hon. Don Young, Alaska Official
Hon. Louie Gohmert, Texas 1st District Official
Hon. Doug Lamborn, Colorado 5th District Official
Hon. Robert J. Wittman, Virginia 1st District Official
Hon. Tom McClintock, California 4th District Official
Hon. Paul A. Gosar, Arizona 4th District Official
Hon. Garret Graves, Louisiana 6th District Official
Hon. Jody B. Hice, Georgia 10th District Official
Hon. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, Samoa Official
Hon. Daniel Webster, Florida 11th District Official
Hon. Jenniffer González Colón, Puerto Rico Official
Hon. Russ Fulcher, Idaho 1st District Official
Hon. Pete Stauber, Minnesota 8th District Official
Hon. Tom Tiffany, Wisconsin’s 7th District Official
Hon. Jerry Carl Jerry, Alabama’s 1st District Official
Hon. Matt Rosendale, Montana At Large Official
Hon. Blake Moore, Utah’s 1’st District Official
Hon. Yvette Herrell, New Mexico’s 2nd District Official
Hon. Lauren Boebert, Colorado’s 3rd District Official
Hon. Jay Obernolte, California’s 8th District Official
Hon. Cliff Bentz Cliff, Oregon’s 2nd District Official

Re: “PUBLIC AND CIVIL PETITION TO ADMIT PUERTO RICO AS A STATE OF THE UNION… NOW”

Estimados Congresistas:
Me llamo Roxanna Soto Aguilú, soy nieta de un inmigrante mexicano quien arribó a las costas de Puerto Rico para el 1900 buscando junto a sus hermanos un mejor porvenir y en el año 1917 adquirió por naturalización su ciudadanía norteamericana gracias a la acción congresional norteamericana para Puerto Rico. Además, soy la hija más pequeña de un Veterano Norteamericano de la Guerra de Korea, también conocido como un “Borinqueneer”.
A través de la historia vivida de mis antecesores, logré ser ciudadana norteamericana por nacimiento en Puerto Rico y hoy en día, soy una electora bona fide en Puerto Rico, la cual aspira a que Puerto Rico ya se convierta en un Estado de la Unión.
No represento mediante mi petición, ningún gremio político, solo escribo como una mera ciudadana norteamericana y electora puertorriqueña quien les solicita ser atendida por ustedes Servidores Públicos del Gobierno Norteamericano.
Desde pequeña se me enseñó a respetar y amar las dos banderas, la norteamericana y la de Puerto Rico, apredí los dos himnos, las dos historias socio políticas, así como valorar mi ciudadanía norteamericana.
Lo que desconocía era que, con el paso del tiempo, la igualdad de las protecciones, inmunidades y privilegios que emanan de la ciudadanía americana, según el texto de la Constitución de Estados Unidos serían involuntariamente puestos a prueba, por décadas diariamente hasta el presente, generando el cuestionamiento genuino en mí, sobre ¿qué? clase de ciudadanía norteamericana es la que poseo?
Fue entonces cuando comprendí que si físicamente me traslado a cualquier Estado de la Unión mi ciudadanía norteamericana activa el cien por ciento de todos los derechos, privilegios e inmunidades que se consagran por mandato constitucional, pero todo se desvanece tan pronto llego a suelo puertorriqueño…ya los derechos, las protecciones, los privilegios e inmunidades no operan “ex propio vigore”.
Desconozco si alguna vez ustedes se han planteado lo que se siente ser ciudadano norteamericano de segunda categoría como nos sentimos los residentes de Puerto Rico, ello significa no tener acceso, ni derecho a recibir en igualdad de condiciones el disfrute de derechos, privilegios e inmunidades de los que gozan diariamente millones de ciudadanos norteamericanos solamente por estar físicamente fuera de la Isla.
Como, por ejemplo, en Puerto Rico a diario vivimos la marginación democrática:
1. No poder votar por el Presidente de los Estados Unidos
2. No poder elegir Senadores, ni Representantes al Congreso de los Estados Unidos
3. Estar sujetos a la autoridad exclusiva de poderes plenarios del Congreso de los Estados Unidos ante posesiones y territorios de la Nación.
4. A contar con un Comisionado Residente a quien solo lo escuchan y no permiten votar ene l hemiciclo del Congreso.
5. A solo tener derecha votar por delegados en las Convenciones de os partidos Demócratas y Republicanos en Puerto Rico
6. A tener un trato claramente discriminatorio para el acceso igual a fondos federales para desarrollo interestatal, agricultura, educación, salud, vivienda, infraestructura, seguridad, innovación energética, turismo, acueductos, inteligencia militar, transporte marítimo, aéreo y terrestre entre otras jurisdicciones estatales de la Unión.
7. Ser veteranos de Guerra y contar con pocos accesos de ayudas y facilidades médicas para sobrellevar la vida fuera de combate.

La pregunta constante en NOSOTROS el Pueblo de Puerto Rico hasta cuando el Congreso de los Estados Unidos aceptaran que estas son las condiciones adecuadas para que vivamos siendo ciudadanos norteamericanos. Nos cuestionamos si será del agrado de otros Estados que sus ciudadanos vivan en tan papable marginación política y social solo basado en donde se encuentran territorialmente.

¿Cuándo entienden ustedes SEÑORES CONGRESISTAS, si no es ahora, que deba ser el momento adecuado para que ustedes nos den a los puertorriqueños residentes en Puerto Rico la preciada ESTADIDAD y con ella poder disfrutar lo que por derecho de ser ciudadanos norteamericanos nos corresponde, ser Estado de la Unión con el disfrute amplio de TODOS los derechos, privilegios, inmunidades y libertades civiles bajo la protección constitucional de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica?

Nuestra representación más pura sobre nuestro deseo de ser ESTADO no solo es la expresión del Pueblo mediante el voto endosando abrumadoramente la Estadidad en consultas electorales anteriores, también estriba EN QUE NINGUNO DE NOSOTROS… EL PUEBLO DE PUERTO RICO HA RENUCIADO o RENUNCIARA A LA CIUDADANIA NORTEAMERCANA POR QUE ASI DE PRECIADA ES ELLA PARA NOSOTROS. IGUALDAD AHORA, ADMITAN A Puerto Rico como Estado de la Unión ahora.

Gentilmente

Roxanna Soto Aguilú, Esq.MA
Juncos, Puerto Rico, USA
risaguilu@aol.com
787-529-4741

TRADUCCIÓN AL INGLÉS

Re: "PUBLIC AND CIVIL PETITION TO ADMIT PUERTO RICO AS A STATE OF THE UNION ... NOW"
Dear Congressmen:
My name is Roxanna Soto Aguilú, I am the granddaughter of a Mexican immigrant who arrived on the shores of Puerto Rico in 1900 seeking a better future with his brothers and in 1917 he acquired his North American citizenship by naturalization thanks to the North American congressional action for Puerto Rich. Also, I am the youngest daughter of a North American Korean War Veteran, also known as a "Borinqueneer."
Through the lived history of my predecessors, I became a North American citizen by birth in Puerto Rico and today, I am a bona fide voter in Puerto Rico, which aspires for Puerto Rico to become a State of the Union.
I do not represent, through my request, any political union, I only write as a mere North American citizen and Puerto Rican elector who requests that you be served by Public Servants of the North American Government.
Since I was little I was taught to respect and love the two flags, the North American and the Puerto Rican, I learned the two anthems, the two socio-political stories, as well as to value my North American citizenship.
What I did not know was that, with the passage of time, the equality of protections, immunities and privileges that emanate from American citizenship, according to the text of the United States Constitution, would be involuntarily put to the test, for decades daily until the present, generating genuine questioning in me, about what? What kind of US citizenship do I have?
It was then that I understood that if I physically move to any State of the Union, my North American citizenship activates one hundred percent of all the rights, privileges and immunities that are enshrined by constitutional mandate, but everything vanishes as soon as I arrive on Puerto Rican soil ... rights, protections, privileges and immunities do not operate “ex proprio vigore”.

I do not know if you have ever considered what it feels like to be a second-class North American citizen as we residents of Puerto Rico feel, this means not having access or the right to receive on equal terms the enjoyment of rights, privileges and immunities of those that millions of North American citizens enjoy daily just for being physically outside the Island.
As, for example, in Puerto Rico we experience democratic marginalization on a daily basis:
1. Not being able to vote for the President of the United States
2. Not being able to elect Senators or Representatives to the United States Congress
3. Be subject to the exclusive authority of plenary powers of the Congress of the United States before possessions and territories of the Nation.
4. To have a Resident Commissioner who is only listened to and not allowed to vote in the hemicycle of Congress.
5. To only have the right to vote for delegates at the Conventions of the Democratic and Republican parties in Puerto Rico
6. To have a clearly discriminatory treatment for equal access to federal funds for interstate development, agriculture, education, health, housing, infrastructure, security, energy innovation, tourism, aqueducts, military intelligence, maritime, air and land transportation, among other jurisdictions. states of the Union.
7. Be veterans of war and have few access to aid and medical facilities to cope with life outside of combat.
The constant question in US the People of Puerto Rico until the Congress of the United States accepts that these are the right conditions for us to live as North American citizens. We wonder if it will be to the liking of other states that their citizens live in such a poperable political and social marginalization only based on where they are territorially.
When do you understand, if not now, that it should be the right time for you to give us Puerto Ricans residing in Puerto Rico the precious STATUS and with it to be able to enjoy what by right of being North American citizens corresponds to us, to be State of the Union with the broad enjoyment of ALL rights, privileges, immunities and civil liberties under the constitutional protection of the United States of America?
Our purest representation of our desire to be a STATE is not only the expression of the People through the vote overwhelmingly endorsing Statehood in previous electoral consultations, it also lies in the fact that NONE OF US ... THE PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO HAS RENUISHED or WILL RENOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE SHE IS THAT PRECIOUS FOR US. EQUALITY NOW, ADMITTING Puerto Rico as a State of the Union now.

Gently,
Roxanna Soto Aguilú, Esq.MA
Juncos, Puerto Rico, USA
risaguilu@aol.com
787-529-4741