Puerto Ricans: The Second Largest Hispanic Group in the United States
April 27, 2016
Puerto Rico has been in an economic recession for nearly 10 years, and since tax credits for manufacturers ended in 2006, employment in Puerto Rico has continued to fall as more citizens move to the mainland. In fact, in 2014, the immigration to the U.S.
On October 14, 2015, Pitt’s very own Law Professor Jasmine Gonzales-Rose gave a talk titled, “Race Inequality Fifty Years Later:
The crowd of students and professors filled a street in Old San Juan, chanting, “¡Somos estudiantes, no somos criminales!”[1] Puerto Rican police officers and a SWAT team made a barrier between the angry, yet peaceful crowd and the rest of the street leading to la Fortaleza, the governor’s mansion.