[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 19, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3546]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PIRATES OF THE LAKE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Falcon Lake in Zapata County, Texas, 
is one of the best bass fishing spots in the United States. The lake is 
an international boundary between Texas and Mexico. That piece of 
paradise has been intruded on this month by the lawlessness seeping 
over from the Mexican border. In two separate incidents, U.S. fishermen 
have been robbed at gunpoint on Falcon Lake by Mexican pirates who held 
AR-15 rifles to their heads. In one holdup, an American fisherman was 
robbed of all of his money. In the other pirate raid, fishermen were 
robbed of their boat, their money and left naked on the Mexican shore. 
The pirates were in a commercial fishing boat, dressed in black 
paramilitary garb carrying automatic weapons.
  What are these pirates doing on Falcon Lake? Are they moving drugs or 
people or worse across the water? We don't know. In the 1800s, Thomas 
Jefferson sent the Navy to protect Americans from pirates in the 
Mediterranean. This administration is blissfully silent about the 
pirates on Falcon Lake. Meanwhile, the border war continues.
  And that's just the way it is.

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