Family ambushed and killed near Mexican border

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You know? Another horrible thing about this is that Trump and his Mexican-hating MAGAs will exploit this tragedy to say "We told you so!"

A suspect was arrested near the Arizona border with Mexico in connection with the deaths of nine U.S. citizens - six children and three women – Monday who were living in a Mormon community about 70 miles south of Douglas, Ariz., investigators said early Wednesday.

The victims’ convoy came under fire during the day in an ambush by gunmen believed to be affiliated with a drug cartel in Mexico.

The Agency for Criminal Investigation said in a statement on Facebook the suspect was found in the town of Agua Prieta, right across the border from Douglas, Arizona. The suspect was holding two hostages who were bound and gagged inside a vehicle.

Investigators found four assault rifles and a bulletproof SUV.

Officials have said that the gunmen may have mistaken the group's large SUVs for those of a rival gang amid a vicious turf war.

Eight young children - including babies - survived the attack by hiding in the brush and even though they were wounded some walked miles to get help. Five badly wounded children were transported to hospitals in Arizona for treatment.

The FBI meanwhile has offered assistance to the Mexican government, hours after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected President Trump's overture to "wage war" on the country's drug cartels in response to the brutal slayings.

“If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters, the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. “The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!”

Source: Mexican cartel massacre: Suspect with 2 hostages, assault rifles, bulletproof SUV arrested in border town

I think I figured out a better solution than the FBI or military. Gather a team of living Darwin Awards recipients and people from all those "Florida Man" articles to send in as free labor for the cartels. The labs will all be blown up, and other forms of gross incompetence will force them to all fall apart in a couple of weeks.

What I have not heard mentioned...is that many of the families in this "Mormon" community (NOT the more commonly known The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) are polygamous and moved to Mexico and Canada when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decided to break with the polygamous doctrine. These are the same families that practice "spiritual" marriages of children as young as 13 to elders in the community. It would not surprise me to learn that the three women were "sister wives."

My memory might fail me here, but I recall that the "leaders" of these break-away groups partook of legal and illegal drugs.

I have read of a few "break away" groups like David Koresh in Waco that were into the poligamy practice, but didn't see the marriage question as relevant as if they were pure. I found what you were talking about interesting about the substances you brought up. I didn't know the "break aways" were into all kinds of substances.

I read that some of these breakaway mormon groups in Mexico are into all kinds of stuff incuding murder for hire among other things.

I don't know if the breakaway groups in Mexico are doing murder for hire, but mormon elders of the breakaway churches here in the US have ordered killings which were carried out. I believe the perpetrators are in jail now, but still, killing a young mother and her two-year old daughter seems an extreme way to carry out God's word.

Carlin had a way of hitting the nail on the head!

latest news is 8 children have come out of hiding