Tiffany Hartley Pushing for Border Security
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DENVER, COLORADO - The wife of a Colorado man allegedly gunned down by Mexican pirates in Falcon Lake is speaking out again.

Tiffany Hartley says Americans need to wake up to the problem of violence along the border. She made the comments during a law enforcement training session in Denver today.

Hartley returned to her hometown of Colorado over the weekend after moving out of McAllen last week. Hartley says her husband, David, was shot and killed while they were jet skiing on Falcon Lake near Old Guerrero in Mexico on September 30th.

Today Tiffany spoke at a law-enforcement conference in Denver. She was there with Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez.

Hartley said she wants to make sure her husbands death was not in vain and she will continue to work to secure the border. She said she is speaking up on behalf of her own family and also for other victims with relatives in Mexico who have stayed silent for fear of retaliation.

Sheriff Gonzalez told the crowd he has been pressing since 2005 for more federal help to protect residents on the Mexican border who are afraid of going on their own land after dark, as the sounds of rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire have become more familiar.

Organizers say they asked Sheriff Gonzalez to speak before the Hartley case. Gonzalez says he regularly speaks around the country about his law enforcement experience on the border

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