Virgin Islands’ Concerns Sent to U.S. Civil Rights Commission

Public discussions of the inequities faced by U.S. citizens in the Virgin Islands have reached another level.

A local committee has released a report to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, outlining the current political and practical status of the territory in its sometimes confusing and somewhat tortured relationship with the federal government and highlighting numerous ways in which Virgin Islands residents are short-changed when it comes to Constitutional protections.

The report is the first of its kind.

Although it received little public attention, the committee spent nearly two years of intense work gathering and sifting through information for the report.