Ken Salazar: “It is the right thing to do.”

We need someone in the White House to oversee the border, migration, Mexico, and the Americas. No one is in charge now. We need a border and migration czar.

We can do as much as we can to minimize the risk, and we certainly have done that, I believe, in the Gulf of Mexico.

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