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Post #4 (12/2/19)At least 208 killed in Iran protests and crackdown, Amnesty International says

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In this article it talks about how at least 208 people have been killed because of the protest of the rising price of gasoline. The countries own police was shooting down protestors. The gas price raised by 50%, and the government has blocked the internet so pictures or videos can not be released. Iran citizens are mad because they are rich in gas  and paying for low gas is a birthright.
This has to do with what we talked in class about globalization and major companies especially oil companies. The United States President, Donals Trump has imposed crushing sanctions. The price of gasoline has also impacted this third world country more than the United States. We also talked about the ripple effect from the United States to third world countries.

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At least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces, Amnesty International said Monday, as one government official acknowledged telling police to shoot demonstrators.

Iran has yet to release any nationwide statistics over the unrest that has gripped the Islamic Republic beginning Nov. 15 with minimum prices for government-subsidized gasoline rising by 50%. State-run media did not acknowledge the Amnesty report and Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Iran shut down internet access amid the unrest, blocking those inside the country from sharing their videos and information, as well as limiting the outside world from knowing the scale of the protests and violence. The restoration of the internet in recent days across much of the country has seen other videos surface.

"We've seen over 200 people killed in a very swift time, in under a week," said Mansoureh Mills, an Iran researcher at Amnesty. "It's something pretty unprecedented even in the history of the human rights violations in the Islamic Republic."

While not drawing as many Iranians into the streets as those protesting the disputed 2009 presidential election, the gasoline price demonstrations rapidly turned violent faster than any previous rallies. That shows the widespread economic discontent gripping the country since May 2018, when President Trump imposed crushing sanctions after unilaterally withdrawing from Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers.

Since the summer, tensions across the Mideast have spiked with attacks the U.S. blames on Tehran. Iran, meanwhile, began to break the deal's centrifuges, enrichment and stockpile limitations with hopes of pressuring Europe to offer it a way to sell crude oil abroad despite Washington's sanctions.

In a statement Monday, Amnesty said there had been "dozens of deaths" in the Tehran suburb of Shahriar, likely one of the areas with the highest toll of those killed in the unrest. Shahriar had seen heavy protests.

Amnesty offered no breakdown for the deaths elsewhere in the country, though it said "the real figure is likely to be higher." Mills said there was a "general environment of fear inside of Iran at the moment."

"The authorities have been threatening families, some have been forced to sign undertakings that they won't speak to the media," she said. "Families have been forced to bury their loved ones at night under heavy security presence."

Authorities also have been visiting hospitals, looking for patients with gunshot wounds or other injuries from the unrest, Mills said. She alleged authorities then immediately detain those with the suspicious wounds.

The demonstrations began after authorities raised minimum gasoline prices by 50% to 15,000 rials per liter. That's 12 cents a liter, or about 50 cents a gallon. After a monthly 60-liter quota, it costs 30,000 rials a liter. That's nearly 24 cents a liter or 90 cents a gallon. An average gallon of regular gas in the U.S. costs $2.58 by comparison, according to AAA.

Cheap gasoline is practically considered a birthright in Iran, home to the world's fourth-largest crude oil reserves despite decades of economic woes since its 1979 Islamic Revolution. Gasoline there remains among the cheapest in the world, in part to help keep costs low for its underemployed, who often drive taxis to make ends meet.

Iran's per capita gross domestic product, often used as a rough sense of a nation's standard of living, is just over $6,000, compared with over $62,000 in the U.S., according to the World Bank. That disparity, especially given Iran's oil wealth, fueled the anger felt by demonstrators.

Already, Iranians have seen their savings chewed away by the rial's collapse from 32,000 to $1 at the time of the 2015 nuclear accord to 126,000 to $1 today. Daily staples also have risen in price.

The scale of the demonstrations also remains unclear. One Iranian lawmaker said he thought that more than 7,000 people had been arrested, although Iran's top prosecutor disputed the figure without offering his own. Meanwhile, a long-detained opposition leader in Iran compared the recent crackdown of protesters to soldiers of the shah gunning down demonstrators in an event that led to the Islamic Revolution, raising the rhetorical stakes of the unrest.

On Twitter, Iranian lawmakers have expressed their anger over the lack of information, although the microblogging website remains otherwise banned in the country.

"In addition to the selective portrayal of destruction of public property, [state-run] Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting should show a few protesters being shot," lawmaker Mahmoud Sadeghi of Tehran wrote sarcastically.

Meanwhile, the governor of a Tehran suburb that saw demonstrations openly acknowledged in a video interview with the state-owned Iran newspaper that she ordered police to shoot protesters if they stormed her offices. Shahr-e Quds Gov. Leila Vaseghi also said she sent text messages to citizens telling them not to join the "rioters" and that there was a "possibility of a shooting" if they did.

"I had told [the police]: 'Shoot at anybody who crosses the gate of the governor office,'" Vaseghi said in the interview.

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At least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces, Amnesty International said Monday, as one government official acknowledged telling police to shoot demonstrators. Iran has yet to release any nationwide statistics over the unrest that has gripped the Islamic Republic beginning Nov.

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Post #3 (11/30/19) With Waters Rising And Its Population Falling, What Is Venice's Future?

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In this article it mentions how Venice has had the most floodwaters in over 50 years. This is impacting Venice's tourism since most tourist are not going to visit Venice. It is also causing a lot of them to migrate out of their city. They also talk about the importance of climate change and how this is impacting the community.
They are also working with nature not against it to make the community work
This is what we talked about in class about climate change and how water sea levels are making people migrate out of their own country to another. They are doing global migration to another country.

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The lagoon city of Venice - a unique experiment nurtured by man and nature - suffered heavy damage in November as floodwaters reached their highest peaks in more than 50 years.

But rising sea levels are not the only threat. As Venetians continue to leave their city, Venice risks becoming an empty shell sinking under mass tourism.

Two weeks after the floods, St. Mark's Square resonates with a cacophony of languages - Spanish, Chinese and Russian. Awestruck visitors shriek and marvel as they take selfies in what Napoleon described as Europe's drawing room.

But across the lagoon, Venetians are taking stock of the damage caused by a wave of exceptionally high tides known as "acqua alta" - high water.

Pellestrina is home mostly to fishermen. For centuries, this 7 1/2-mile-long barrierisland protected the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic Sea. But on Nov. 12, a near-record high tide of more than 6 feet, combined with strong winds, made for a perfect storm and washed over Pellestrina's high embankments, flooding the island for a full day. Nearly everything on ground floors was destroyed.

Along the waterfront, trash collectors load now-useless refrigerators and washing machines onto trucks.

Fisherman Dino Vianello stares forlornly toward the lagoon, at what was once his shed on wooden pilings. For 40 years, he stored his nets there. Now his livelihood is gone.

Nobody, he says, had ever seen waves nearly 7 feet high and the sea roiling inside homes.

"The lagoon's ecosystem is unique," says Vianello, "the ancient Venetians who built the Republic of Venice worked in harmony with nature, not against it."

Many Venetians believe excavation of deep canals in the 1960s to accommodate oil tankers irreparably harmed the lagoon's delicate ecosystem. There's also widespread skepticism about a long-term project to build large, movable floodgates to hold back rising sea levels.

The project is called Mose, an Italian acronym that also means Moses, suggesting a parting of the waters. Still unfinished after 16 years and $5.5 billion in public funds, it has been plagued by corruption and won't be in operation for two more years.

Meanwhile, many residents of Venice feel ignored by local authorities.

In the central Castello District, master artisan Paolo Brandolisio - one of only four remaining makers of oars and oar posts for the city's legendary gondolas - is trying to put his workshop back in order. Brandolisio is trying to salvage his waterlogged oak worktable.

"We've always managed on our own. In the last 40 or 50 years, city authorities didn't safeguard artisans' workshops," says Brandolisio. "If no one's left to make wooden boats, they'll disappear and be replaced by plastic ones."

Brandolisio laments that most shops now sell Chinese-made souvenirs.

"Shops for residents are vanishing because Venetians are vanishing," he says. "So those who are left are those making money selling the cheapest possible goods."

Besides the shrinking Venice that's home to local residents, there are two other Venices. One is the city of giant cruise ships as high as skyscrapers that - along with other forms of transport - disgorge some 30 million visitors a year into a city of about 50,000. Central Venice's population is down by about a third from a generation ago.

And there's the Venice of international institutions - of education, heritage and creative endeavor - that make it a world capital of art and culture.

"International Venice takes the social fabric of Venice for granted. We need to change the vision of the city," says Shaul Bassi, director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Across the world, he says, big cities look more and more alike, with the same architects creating more or less the same skyline. Venice, Bassi believes, represents the very idea of a city.

"It's a city that for over a thousand years has built a wonderful equilibrium between a human component, ecological component, art, nature. And in the last century, we have basically almost destroyed that balance," Bassi says.

In the battle against rising sea levels, Venice is on the front line. That's why, says Bassi, it's the ideal laboratory in which to study climate change. Next year, his university will offer a new degree in environmental humanities, in which scientists provide the data, "but we need to imagine what climate change is going to be like. And for that, you need the artist, you need the intellectual, you need the poets, you need philosophers, you need the historians."

Bassi is urging people in all the fields of science and art to come to Venice to reflect, study, create and compose, to help make it a truly living city for the whole world.

Regardless of whether more people come, though, many Venetians fear there is a serious danger the prediction made by Lord Byron two centuries ago could come true:

O Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls

Are level with the waters, there shall be

A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls,

A loud lament along the sweeping sea!

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The lagoon city of Venice - a unique experiment nurtured by man and nature - suffered heavy damage in November as floodwaters reached their highest peaks in more than 50 years. But rising sea levels are not the only threat. As Venetians continue to leave their city, Venice risks becoming an empty shell sinking under mass tourism.

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Post #2 (11/19/19) Months After Massive ICE Raid, Residents Of A Mississippi Town Wait And Worry

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Post #2 (11/19/19) Months After Massive ICE Raid, Residents Of A Mississippi Town Wait And Worry

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This article talks about the massive Ice raids that occurred in Mississippi 3 months ago. Ice detained 680 people and lockin them up for roughly 3 months, and are now released and are waiting for a court date to either be granted citizenship or get deported back to their home country. They talk about a mother who was in jail for approximately 3 months, and her youngest son is 6, would cry for her to come home. Now that she is home he is traumatized and thinks his mother will be taken away. She doesn't know if she will get deported but fears that is she does she will leave her children behind.
This is an example about what we talked about in class about transnational migration, all these people if they do not have legal status in the United States they will get deported and sent back to a town there are not familiar with. They also risk the fact that they will leave their children behind. This can also be dangerous because once they get deported they will most likely find a way to cross the border once again to be with their family.

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On the morning of Aug. 7, Tony McGee was driving to work in Morton, Miss., when he noticed something unusual happening at one of the local chicken processing plants.

McGee is superintendent of the county schools, and it was the second day of classes.

"There was some activity there with law enforcement that had the parking lot barricaded," he recalls. "I actually called one of our assistant superintendents because it's relatively close to the school."

What McGee soon learned was that he was witnessing part of the biggest workplace immigration raid ever in a single state.

That day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested approximately 680 people at seven plants across Mississippi. Just more than half the total - 342 people - were arrested in Morton alone.

Later that morning, McGee started receiving phone calls from parents who wanted to check students out of school. He says the confusion compared to a natural disaster, but this was man-made.

"We have plans for tornadoes, we have plans for a fire," McGee said. "But you know, ICE raid is not one that is really on the radar."

Three months later, Morton is coping with the fallout of the massive raid. Almost a quarter of the people in Morton are Latino, and the arrests have rippled across town, from banks to churches to shops. Some Morton residents are rallying around their neighbors. Others are defending the actions of ICE. For the Latino community, there is worry and waiting.
Living In Fear
Surrounded by the Bienville National Forest, the small town of Morton lies about 45 minutes east of the state capital, Jackson. It's home to 3,462 people, and chicken processing plants are the main source of employment.

Employing more than 1,000 people, the largest poultry plant in Morton is owned by Koch Foods Inc.

When federal immigration agents entered that plant, a woman who asked to be identified as Elisa was at work de-boning chickens.

"We looked up and saw they were armed, so I thought they were terrorists," Elisa recalls. "I panicked, because they were yelling in English and I couldn't understand them."

The ICE operation came four days after a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, where a racist gunman targeting Latinos killed 22 people. Elisa thought the same thing was happening in Morton.

She says she was locked up for 49 days, and didn't see her children during that time.

"I have three kids, so that was the most painful part for me. Because my baby, who is 6 years old, suffered a lot," she says. "He cried, begging me to come back to them."

Her husband wasn't at work the day of the raids. When he did show up at the Koch plant, he was fired.

Elisa says her son continues to struggle.

"Whenever I leave the house, my little boy worries if I'll come home," she says.

It's not just her son that has been affected. Elisa says the whole Latino community feels the strain.

"A lot of people aren't leaving the house," she says. "The truth is nothing will be the same here. Now we're just living with fear."

Elisa says before the raid, she dreamed about buying a house and starting a business. Not anymore.

"With what happened, all those plans are lost," she says.
Enforcing The Law
Jere Miles, the ICE special agent in charge for the region that includes Mississippi, helped organize the team of 650 people who carried out the arrests in August.

"Whether you've been here a week, a month or 10 years, you're still violating the law," he says.

But Miles, who is based in Jackson, says the undocumented workers were not the only reason for the action.

"We're building a criminal investigation against a target," he says. "And pursuant to that criminal investigation, we encountered and detained undocumented workers."

No charges have been brought against the companies involved in the raids, or their executives. But Miles says that it's "an ongoing criminal investigation," and that the goal in every probe is to "see a conviction at the very highest level that we can get at."

Koch Foods did not respond to NPR's request for an interview. In a statement issued the day after the raids, the company said it is " diligent about its compliance with state and federal employment eligibility laws." The company is now suing the government for what it calls an " illegal search."

When asked if - in light of the larger criminal investigation - the arrested workers in Mississippi could be considered "collateral damage," Miles responds: "I think collateral damage is the wrong word, because I think when we use a word like collateral damage, you're drawing a distinction and acting like these people are not criminals. These people are criminals. They break the law."

Out of the 680 arrests across Mississippi that day, Miles says 400 were found to be using someone else's Social Security number.

U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, who is also based in Jackson, was involved in the investigation for 18 months leading up to the raids.

His office is now prosecuting 119 of the immigrants picked up in August for federal crimes ranging from stealing Americans' identities to falsifying immigration documents.

He says the experience of children in Morton was unfortunate, but unavoidable.

"Anytime I see a child or a family who are adversely affected by their family members' criminal actions, it concerns me. It bothers me. But at the end of the day, we have laws on the books and so our job is to enforce those laws."

Almost 60% of people in Scott County - where Morton is located - voted for President Trump in 2016. So plenty of people in town cheer the ICE enforcement actions, including 67-year-old Cathy Johnson.

"If you're here illegally, you shouldn't be," she says.

Johnson believes undocumented workers deserve to be arrested.

"This town, it's kind of pitiful like it is," she says. "My kids call it 'Mexico,' I mean, it's just kinda sad."

Johnson wishes churches would stop giving free food and other help to immigrant families that aren't allowed to work anymore.

"It's just the way I feel. Maybe I'm hard-hearted," she says. "There's a lot of people here that are needing help that are legal, that you can give handouts to. "
Support For Affected Families
There also have been many people in the community who have rallied behind the immigrant families.

The Morton United Methodist Church is one of the churches helping out. For the last three months, the church has been collecting donations - $100,000 so far - to pay bills for people affected by the raid.

"The poor are the poor, no matter what their race is or legal status," says Sheila Cumbest, pastor at the church.

At first, she thought relief efforts would take about six months. Now, she says, it seems like it will be a lot longer.

Jim Farris, 73, is another local who has rallied behind the immigrant community.

"We're not a rich community to start with, you know, there's not a lot of wealth here," he says.

He's volunteering at a food bank where Latino families show up for boxes full of diapers, canned food, dried beans and rice - enough food for a family to get by for a week.

There's also fresh chicken. On a recent night, Farris says the food bank gave out about 80 boxes - or about 800 pounds - of chicken, donated by the poultry plant at the center of this whole episode.

Farris was born and raised in Morton.

"It's changed greatly," he says about his hometown. "I graduated in '64. So the schools were not integrated at the time I graduated. ... So there's been a big change, but the change has been positive."

One of those changes is that now almost a quarter of the kids in Scott County schools are Latino, including a 17-year-old boy whose family asked he be called Luis, due to their immigration status.

In August, Luis had just started his senior year of high school. His parents were both working at the Koch plant when ICE started arresting people.

The family is still holding onto hope that they can stay in Morton at least until Luis graduates next year.

But for now, his mother and father are prohibited from working while they await a court date.

"I'm desperate, not being able to work," his mother says. "Our future is totally up in the air."

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Months After Massive ICE Raid, Residents Of A Mississippi Town Wait And Worry

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On the morning of Aug. 7, Tony McGee was driving to work in Morton, Miss., when he noticed something unusual happening at one of the local chicken processing plants. McGee is superintendent of the county schools, and it was the second day of classes.

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Post #1 (11/5/19)Mormon Family Mourns Their Dead In Mexico, Calls For U.S. To Rein In Its Guns

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Post #1 (11/5/19)Mormon Family Mourns Their Dead In Mexico, Calls For U.S. To Rein In Its Guns

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This article focuses on the loss of family members in Mexico. They call for justice from both the U.S and Mexico, these family members were U.S citizens visiting a Mexican community of mormons.. Trump sent his condolences but the family is asking for a restrict gun control policy between the borders. Trump also addressed to help the Mexican President Obrador but he refused the help, he also mentioned that the only way he can help is by enforcing the flow of guns.
This has to do with political globalization like we talked about in class. Because major corporations like gun corporations influence these policies. These major corporations usually donate a lot of money to political parties to keep such polices in place. Making it impossible to prevent guns being illegally taken into Mexico for cartels.

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Several members of the extended family of Mormons whose relatives were attacked in northern Mexico Monday are speaking out, saying it's time to reject gang violence. As family members prepare to bury the nine victims killed in that attack, they also say both the U.S. and Mexico should be part of the solution.

President Trump has extended his condolences to relatives of victims - three mothers and six children, all U.S. citizens - on Tuesday. But it was Trump's offer to help by sending the U.S. military into Mexico that drew a response from both the family and Mexico's government.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador quickly rebuffed Trump's offer, saying his government will seek justice in the case. And on Wednesday, López Obrador's top security official went further, saying the U.S. could help - by stopping the flow of high-powered weapons into Mexico.

"This is a grave problem we have in the country, the smuggling of arms, particularly from the U.S.," Security Minister Alfonso Durazo said in an update on the case Wednesday morning. Of the flow of weapons from the U.S., he added, "it's what has allowed the criminal groups to increase their firepower."

Alex LeBaron, one of the slain family members' relatives, used Twitter to relay a more direct response to Trump.

"Want to help?" LeBaron asked in a tweet addressed to the president. "Focus on lowering Drug Consumption in U.S. Want to help some more? Stop the ATF and Gun Law loopholes from systematically injecting high powered assault weapons to Mexico. " He added, "Please help."

Want to help? Focus on lowering Drug Consumption in U.S. Want to help some more? Stop the ATF and Gun Law loopholes from systematically injecting high powered assault weapons to Mexico... Please help ☝️@realDonaldTrump https://t.co/wqwfmqhPC1
- LeBaron (@AlexLebaron1) November 5, 2019

Last year, Mexico reported a record 33,341 intentional homicides - a 15% increase over the previous year. In 2019, criminal organizations have continued to operate with seeming impunity - including an incident last month when security forces retreated from a massive gun battle that broke out when authorities tried to arrest a son of the imprisoned kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.

For years, many Mexican politicians have believed, as NPR's Jason Beaubien reported in 2010, that Mexico's incredibly violent drug war is "fueled by U.S. demand for narcotics, fought with weapons from U.S. gun shops, and funded by U.S. cash that flows freely across the border."

When the U.S. performed its own tally of illegal guns that were seized in Mexico, the Government Accountability Office reported that more than 73,000 weapons seized in Mexico from 2009 to 2014 were traced back to the U.S. About half of those were long guns. But officials on both sides of the border also said they were seeing unfinished gun parts - which aren't covered by the U.S. Gun Control Act - leaving the U.S. for Mexico, where they can easily be assembled into finished weapons.

"We're joined by a hip on this. This is a problem for both countries," another family member, Daniel LeBaron, says in an interview with KJZZ's Fronteras Desk. Acknowledging the cartel violence that claims thousands of lives each year, LeBaron adds, "Maybe now with the face of Americans being murdered it brings it closer to home that this is a serious problem."

Mexican officials say they're still trying to determine whether the group was targeted or if they were the victims of mistaken identity. The large Mormon community lives in an area just south of Arizona where rival cartels are currently at war, fighting to secure smuggling routes close to the U.S. border. But citing the intensity of the attack, relatives say the criminals intentionally killed carloads of women and children.

Lenzo Widmar, whose cousin Rhonita Maria Miller was killed along with four of her children, tells Mexican media outlet Milenio, "We are a family of more than 5,000 members in our communities and our roots are already very planted here in Mexico."

"We have no plans to leave," he adds.

Another relative, anti-violence activist Julián LeBarón, tells Milenio that he doesn't care whether the U.S. or Mexico lead the inquiry into the killings, as long as justice is served.

The shocking attack is putting new pressure on the non-confrontational policies of López Obrador, who has often insisted that social changes, not violence, will win the drug war. He's now defending that strategy, which he has often summed up in short phrases, from "Hugs, not bullets," to "We can't fight fire with fire."

However the official response to the killings turns out, relatives say they're not leaving the community they call home.

"We are coming together as a community to deal with it. We've been here for five generations. Most of us have blood from both places. And we're no we're going anywhere," Daniel LeBaron tells Fronteras. "We're going to fight this. We're going to stand up to whatever we have to stand up to."

Discussing the thousands of innocent people who are affected by cartel violence annually in Mexico, Daniel LeBaron says the killings are fueled by "fundamentally flawed policies" in both the U.S. and Mexico.

The women and children were attacked Monday morning as they drove three SUVs between the states of Sonora and Chihuahua. In one spot, authorities found a burned-out Chevrolet Tahoe with five bodies and multiple bullet holes. Further down the road, they found two Chevy Suburbans with more bodies - and in what the family calls a small miracle, several children survived the assault, including a seven-month-old girl.

Several details about the attack have changed as the authorities continue to investigate. After initial reports that the three women had been driving in a small convoy when they were attacked, for instance, federal officials said Wednesday that the first vehicle was fired upon more than an hour before the other two.

News of the attack has been steadily relayed on Facebook by Jhon LeBaron, whose aunt, Dawna Ray Langford, died along with two of her children. His postings and updates have included heartbreaking photos of the children who died, and scenes from the sites on the road where the attacks took place.

"The response I got from this posting was truly quite overwhelming," Jhon LeBaron said Wednesday, thanking those who helped get the word out about his family's horrible loss.

"My brain is in a fog. And as a family we're working thru this," he said. "Justice must be served for this horrendous crime. My family is in the process of planning funerals for these beautiful souls."

The victims are part of the extended LeBaron family, members of which have lived in northern Mexico for decades since splitting off from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints following its move away from polygamy. That rift began in 1890; this week, the Utah-based church said that while it mourns those who were killed or hurt in Sonora, it doesn't consider the victims to be members of the church.

In religious terms, the best way to refer to the victims and their relatives is as independent Mormons, says Cristina Rosetti, a scholar of Mormon fundamentalism, in an interview with member station KUER in Utah.

The attack unfolded near the town of Bavispe, close to the family's La Mora ranch. In a visit to that area late Tuesday, Mexico Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard called the brutal attack "an atrocity that cannot be allowed."

Of the Mormons who live in that area, Ebrard said they are a binational community that is "very respectable and beloved in Mexico."

He added, "they are part of our people."
NPR's Carrie Kahn contributed to this report.

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Several members of the extended family of Mormons whose relatives were attacked in northern Mexico Monday are speaking out, saying it's time to reject gang violence. As family members prepare to bury the nine victims killed in that attack, they also say both the U.S. and Mexico should be part of the solution.