LZ Granderson: 'Blame Mexico' won't solve the crises of guns and fentanyl

Ken Salazar, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, met with the Los Angeles Times for more than an hour while visiting California in November. He was eager to talk up the celebrations surrounding the U.S.-Mexico diplomacy bicentennial. We were eager to talk about the border. The pas de deux featured a lot of platitudes, a couple of tense moments, and a number I can't shake: 13,000.

That was the estimate Salazar gave for the number of Mexicans who were studying at our all our diplomacy could muster? By comparison, our geopolitical adversary China had north of 300,000 on our campuses.