Neighbors of the American families murdered in northern Mexico this week worry t...
SAN MIGUELITO, Mexico - Neighbors of the American families murdered in northern Mexico this week worry the massacre will spell the end for two villages that have grown to rely on one another since breakaway Mormons set up home in the isolated hills decades ago.
All the victims lived in La Mora, a cluster of suburban-style homes settled more than 70 years back by a breakaway Mormon sect from the United States on land 56 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border at Arizona. Although the American families’ attachment to Mexico runs deep and they are unlikely to uproot from one day to the next, some say they were spending more time north of the border to escape Mexico’s violence even before this week’s killings.
Another La Mora resident, David LeBaron, said about a third of the roughly 30 homes there were now empty most of the time, and more families were talking about leaving for good. “There are no complaints, just pure gratitude. That’s why the villages are inhabited, otherwise, we would have had to emigrate to other areas,” she noted. “Thank God, everyone here has work.”“They’re American citizens, they can go back to the United States. But we’re Mexicans, we have to cope with this situation,” she said.
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