Ken Salazar: “I don't believe we should engage in the wholesale giveaway of public lands, which is what the previous administration…”

We have seen that national security and environmental conservation are mutually supporting goals.

I think the partnership that we can build between the leaders of both countries targeting the root causes of migration, and working together on issues of border security are all great opportunities in front of us.

What is being neglected here is the bigger picture. And that's this foreign policy paradigm that is so required for the United States and Mexico and the Americas.

From day one, there should have been a great sense of urgency in addressing the crisis of a broken border and the migration crisis that we are seeing.