The incident on Lake Falcon is fodder for Americans pushing for immigration reform in Washington or requesting more resources to secure US territory against so-called 鈥渟pillover violence." It may be no coincidence that the news interest comes in the height of election season.
鈥淭his kind of thing awakens anti-immigrant sentiment,鈥 says Analicia Ruiz, an expert on US-Mexico relations at Anahuac University in Mexico City.