• REQUEST: Mourning families from the November 7 massacre in Northern Mexico are seeking to meet US President Donald Trump sometime in the coming week to share with him what they say is the sense of abandonment at their communities in the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua.
• MEETING: “We as American citizens who we are … are asking Trump to grant us a meeting. And if he tells us ‘Come here!’ we’ll go”, said Adrian LeBaron -the father of Rhonita Miller, one of the women who perished- in an interview in Mexican radio about the request to the White House.
• BINATIONAL: In the hours following the murders near the little hamlet of La Mora in Sonora, the US Department of State confirmed that several of the victims were US citizens; the three families affected by the massacre (Johnson, Langford, Miller) had links to North Dakota and Utah.
• BREAKAWAYS: Descendants of a breakaway group from the Mormon Church that settled in Mexico, the families founded two colonies Colonia LeBarón in Chihuahua and the much smaller La Mora in Sonora; Mexican authorities are probing two organized crime gangs present in the area.
