Ken Salazar: “There are over 100 applications that we have for major commercial scale solar utility projects on our public lands.”

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.

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.

We are incredibly thankful that Chairman Grijalva is championing this issue.

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.