These are Mormons who wouldn’t give up polygamy and then went to remote places; they’re connected with some Mormon polygamous groups in the US, too. However, they seem to have reconciled with regular Mormons in Mexico and have gone to services at a regular Mormon church (I think this group was on their way there at the time). Unlike the fundamentalist Mormons in the US, they don’t appear to live on welfare but actually run businesses (pomegranate and nut growing).
One of the older family members, who lived in a different town, was very much opposed to the drug cartels and in fact his son had been kidnapped and was only released after a Mexican army action against the kidnappers. This was a few years ago. Another family member - a younger brother? - was then killed by the cartels shortly after that.
However, this particular group of Mormons was a little odd in that they had connections with the NXVIM sex-slave cult in the US and used to send their teenage girls to work at the cult’s headquarters. I read that NXVIM hired Mormons from these groups because the girls were generally healthy and pretty, used to hard work, and also used to polygamy. That is, men - or the man in charge of the cult, whose name I have forgotten - could have lots of wives and temporary “wives” but the women could only have the man to whom they were assigned.
The cartels control sex-trafficking in Mexico, so they may have thought that this was the NXVIM connection. Needless to say, that doesn’t justify the killings or make the cartels any less guilty, but it’s just that there may be a complicated back story. And even if there is, they knew these people were American citizens...and it just shows you that they don’t care anymore. They’re not afraid of the US. Thanks, Dems.
“They’re not afraid of the US”
THAT is the case.
In the ‘60s they were terrified of US law enforcement. Illegals were pulled out of their ‘65 Impalas and carted off in green vans while the hook came out to drag their cars to the impound lot on Ajo way in Tucson.
Drug mafias like the “cartels” would have been body slammed by BP units without regret.
The BP was founded because of Villa and his cross border raids. The Southern Democrats objected to using the military for a police action like that under Posse Comitatus so the response was to create the BP, a dedicated police agency that had a para-military mission.
The modern Democrats are attempting to castrate the BP in a similar way.
You’re analysis of what may have happened with the LeBaron family is also accurate. Ervil LeBaron was a murderer who caused trouble in Salt Lake for decades, and his family was probably mixed up in some things that put them at risk.
Doesn’t in ANY way justify a hideous massacre of women and children. Just shows that the most depraved scum on the planet runs free in Mexico now, and they are planting their monsters among us with illegal immigration.
Time to run the Orks out of town.