Puerto Rico's Rights and Statehood

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 25, 2022

In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress can exclude residents of Puerto Rico from some federal disability benefits that are otherwise granted to U.S. citizens. Yarimar Bonilla, professor of Puerto Rican Studies and Anthropology at the City University of New York, monthly columnist at El Nuevo Dia, and incoming director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, talks about the implications of that ruling and what it might mean for the future of statehood for the island.

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