Today, Tuesday, March 2, is celebrated by law in Puerto Rico on American Citizenship Day.
This holiday was decreed by executive order in 2017 by the then governor Ricardo Rosselló, who at that time also created the Special Commission for the Celebration of the First Centenary of the granting of American citizenship to Puerto Ricans.
The American Citizenship Celebration Act states that the first week of March of each year will be called “American Citizenship Week in Puerto Rico,” and March 2 would be the day commemorating the advent of the Citizenship.
This was then on March 2, 1917 that the United States Congress passed the Jones Shafroth Organic Law, in which Article 5 provides that all citizens of Puerto Rico declared themselves “citizens” of the United States, and will be considered and taken as such “.
Another factor included in the Law on the Celebration of American Citizenship is that for a week, Education will “prepare and organize a special curriculum that in the form of talks and conferences educates and instructs students in schools. public rights regarding the rights, benefits, prerogatives, obligations, and responsibilities of having U.S. citizenship. “
In addition, it instructs the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture to take “the necessary measures for the organization and holding of events in tribute to the celebration of the Advent of American Citizenship.”