Ted Poe: “It was just another day on the Texas border on October 1, 2010. A young couple, David and Tiffany Hartley, were on…”

“It was just another day on the Texas border on October 1, 2010. A young couple, David and Tiffany Hartley, were on Falcon Lake. Falcon Lake is a massive lake that borders Mexico in the State of Texas, an international border. They were on their jet skis, and they traveled across the international line into Mexico. They had gone to see an old mission that was partially submerged in Falcon Lake. On their way back coming into the United States, they were being chased by three boats full, obviously, of drug cartel members--later we learned they were the Zeta drug cartels--firing automatic weapons at David and Tiffany Hartley. David was shot in the back of the head. Tiffany tries to help, but they were still shooting, so she flees. She comes back into the United States, and one of the boats--get this, Mr. Speaker--follows her into the United States for over 3 miles until she got ashore and finally sought safety with some passerby that was standing there. Then this boat casually goes back into Mexico. David Hartley was murdered on October 1, 5 weeks ago. The way the current runs in Falcon Lake, his body would have been into the American side in about 2 hours had not someone taken his body out of the water or cut the life preserver off of him or both. His body has never been found. The Mexican Government quickly accused Tiffany Hartley of being the culprit--the audacity--just to not investigate this case. David Hartley's body has never been found.”