Tiffany Hartley, the wife of the man reportedly shot by “lake pirates” on the Texas-Mexico border, has been all over the media in recent days, telling her harrowing tale. Hartley has also been calling on the federal government to take more responsibility for the incident.“They need to have a realization, a wake-up call,” Ms. Hartley told KURV this week, according to The Christian Science Monitor. “We need to get people down here. We need to get our Army and military and whoever. We need to double our Border Patrol and take back the lake. Why in the heck do [the cartels] have [control of] that lake? They have most of that lake.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=120113