Jan. 13 (UPI) -- Republican Rep. Randy Fine introduced legislation Monday authorizing President Donald Trump to take measures necessary to acquire Greenland, amid renewed White House rhetoric about taking the autonomous Danish island.
The Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act, which is anything but assured of passage through the House, would give Trump the power to take the island, including through annexation, and require a report to be submitted to Congress detailing necessary changes to federal law to admit Greenland as the 51st state.
"Whoever controls Greenland controls key Arctic shipping lanes and the security architecture protecting the United States," Fine, of Florida, said in a statement.
"America cannot leave that future in the hands of regimes that despise our values and seek to undermine our security."
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