Raúl Grijalva: “Advancing environmental justice, strengthening tribal and community engagement, and ensuring a fair return for taxpayers…”

The 1872 Mining Law is an outdated law that has failed to protect communities like mine.

You hear repeatedly in this Congress and in this Committee of the dire dangers being presented at the southern border of this nation with fentanyl, human trafficking, organized crime, cartels...

To merely open the floodgates to the use of our public lands without any protections, due process, community involvement... is going back to a time that got us into this situation.

Their bipartisan work to correct the misguided Carcieri ruling demonstrates how Democrats and Republicans can work together on this Subcommittee for Indian Country.