Raúl Grijalva: “This bill is a simple mineral withdrawal. It doesn't limit multiple use. It doesn't limit non-mining activities in the…”

You are hearing that correctly. Any American, or notably, any American subsidiary of a foreign company could have the exclusive rights to our public lands for about $10 per acre per year.

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...

Wildlife trafficking and illegal logging facilitate instability in a country.

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.