Mr. Grillo shared that Americans spend $100 billion buying crystal meth, cocaine, marijuana & heroin every yr & also cartels that are armed with a huge amount of weapons from the US. Between 2007 & 2016 there were 150,000 guns that was definitely traced from Mexico2US… pic.twitter.com/Kro1A3Bngz
— @natsnews (@natsallnews) November 7, 2019
Mexico is starting to look like a narco state with incredible corruption…Presidents, Governors being arrested, Drug Czars, & traditionally you had Mayors being bribed to watch over the cartels, now you have Mayors paying a part of their budget to the drug cartels… pic.twitter.com/Qyvu1bdXvq
— @natsnews (@natsallnews) November 7, 2019
Continuation from @TuckerCarlson clarifying the media’s response to the 9 deaths in Mexico & the socialist Democrats running for President siding with the Syria and the Kurds and not caring what happens to Americans with a potential war south of the border with drug cartels. pic.twitter.com/361oQxt3qG
— @natsnews (@natsallnews) November 7, 2019
DouglasMacGregorRetired ArmyColonelSaid,“LastYr USSpent$16.2Billion2 Maintain2,000TroopsOnThe GroundInSyria2Support MilitaryOperationsThere.$1 BillionConsistedOfAid,IDon’t KnowWhereThatWent! 33,000MurderedPplInMexico MoreThanInSyria&300,000 HomicidesSinceTheDrug
InsurgencyBegan pic.twitter.com/pw3UBbcpUn— @natsnews (@natsallnews) November 7, 2019
MacGregor re: 9 American lives murdered. It’s a watershed event, it’s an important event that marks a change in something bc now their killing Americans. They killed9Women&ChildrenThis WasNotAccidental,ThisWasA DeliberateAmbushStagedW/MilitaryPrecision,Everyone WasAssassinated. pic.twitter.com/hlj50g5hve
— @natsnews (@natsallnews) November 7, 2019
At least nine people—including six children—who lived in a religious community of U.S. citizens in northern Mexico were killed Monday in what could be a case of mistaken identity after drug trafficking rivals were fired upon by cartel gunmen, according to family.
#BreakingNews At least 9 US Citizens were killed by #Mexican #cartel These ppl were attending a wedding & getting caught up in a war between two drug cartels. The SUVs were shot at & burned beyond recognition. As Americans we send our prayers 2 the victims families. pic.twitter.com/6U67mbk4Lu
— @natsnews (@natsallnews) November 5, 2019
More than a dozen other members of La Mora — a decades-old settlement in Sonora state founded as part of an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — were missing after the attack on a convoy of three SUVs carrying community members, a relative who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, told The Associated Press.
Another relative, Lafe Langford Jr., shared a video on Facebook that showed a burned-out, bullet-ridden SUV where the bodies of a woman—identified as Rhonita Maria LeBaron—and her four children– twin 6-month-olds and two other children aged 8 and 10—were reportedly found by other church members outside the town of Bavispe, where the settlement is located. They were American citizens, according to the New York Times.
Relatives claim that cartel members kidnapped the surviving church members after the initial shootout.
Langford Jr., who grew up in the Mexican settlement but now lives in the U.S., told the Salt Lake Tribune the bodies of the two other mothers in the group—43-year-old Dawna Ray Langford and 31-year-old Christina Marie Langford—were found in a separate location later Monday. A third relative, Julian LeBarón, said a 4-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy were also killed, bringing the death toll to at least 9.
Mexico’s federal Department of Security and Citizens’ Protection said security forces were reinforced with National Guard, army and state police troops in the area following “the reports about disappearance and aggression against several people.” The troops were searching for the missing community members, believed to include 11 children or more.
According to Langford Jr.’s Facebook post, one of the older boys in the group managed to escape with six of his siblings from the ongoing shootout and run back to his home at La Mora settlement, which is located about 70 miles south of Douglas, Ariz. He said he left other children who were injured hidden on the side of the road. It was unclear how many children were ultimately rescued as of Monday evening.
Many of the church’s members were born in Mexico and thus have dual U.S. citizenship. The three SUVs left Bavispe and were traveling on the outskirts of Sonora, near the neighboring state of Chihuahua, when they were reportedly attacked.
The U.S. State Department issued a statement saying, “The safety and welfare of U.S. citizens abroad is among the Department of State’s top priorities. When a U.S. citizen is missing or passes away overseas, we engage with local officials at multiple levels and provide all appropriate consular assistance,” according to Salt Lake City, Utah’s KSL-TV.
It was unclear if the church members were targeted in the attack or if the attack was a case of mistaken identity. It would not be the first time that members of the break-away church had been attacked in northern Mexico, where their forebears settled — often in Chihuahua state — decades ago. In 2009, Benjamin LeBaron, an anti-crime activist who was related to those killed in Monday’s attack, was murdered in 2009 in neighboring Chihuahua state.
At Least 9 Members of Mormon Family in Mexico Are Killed in Ambush
MEXICO CITY — At least three women and six children in a prominent local Mormon family were killed on Monday when their vehicles were ambushed in northern Mexico by gunmen believed to be members of organized crime, family members said. The attack alarmed a nation already reeling from record violence this year.
Members of the LeBarón family, American citizens who have lived in a fundamentalist Mormon community in the border region for decades, were traveling in three separate vehicles when the gunmen attacked, several family members said. They described a terrifying scene in which one child was gunned down while running away, while others were trapped inside a burning car.
Two of the children killed were less than a year old, the family members said. Kenny LeBarón, a cousin of the women driving the vehicles, said in a telephone interview that he feared the death toll could grow higher.
Horror: Brutal Cartels Massacre American Mothers and Children in Northern Mexico
In last night’s massacre, Rhonita Maria LeBaron was traveling to Phoenix when her car broke down, according to relatives.
Gunmen opened fire and torched her vehicle causing the gas tank to explode where she died along with her twin six-month-old babies, Titus and Tiana and two more of her children Krystal, 10, and Howard, 12.
Eight miles ahead, Christina Langford Johnson, 31, Dawna Ray Langford, 43, and two of Dawna’s children, Trevor, 11, and Rogan, 3, were also killed in other SUVs. Other family members are still unaccounted for.
Mexican authorities have confirmed the deaths of at least five people and have launched an investigation. Early reports and community members say nine people were killed or are missing