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A Puerto Rico legislator called Rick Santorum's suggestion that the territory adopt English as its official language a "narrow and limiting view of what America is about."

The response, by Del. Pedro Pierluisi (D-Puerto Rico) comes a day after Santorum, during a visit to the territory, told a local newspaper that Puerto Rico had to adopt English as its official language if it wanted statehood.

"Well, first, it's incorrect to say that there's a federal law imposing English as the only official language in our states. The Constitution doesn't provide anything along those lines either," Pierluisi said Thursday on CNN. 

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