BINOAMAN. and HOLLINOS are cosponsors of this legislation. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is located 3.900 miles west of Hawaii. Following World War II. the United States administered the Islands under a U.N. Trusteeship. In 1975. the people of the CNM1 voted for political union with the United States. Today the CNMI is a U.S. territory. A 1976 covenant enacted by Congress gave U.S. citizenship to residents of the CNMI. The covenant exempted the Commonwealth from U.S. immigration and minimum wage laws. however. This omission has led to a number of abuses in the CNMI that my bill would rectify.
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