Father of horrific Mormon massacre victims says Mexico’s justice

A hundred people took part in the 2019 massacre of that Mormon family in northern Mexico, and five years later not one conviction has landed. Sit with that for a second. This was not a shadowy, one-man crime that vanished into the desert. This was a convoy ambush so large it took coordination, cars, guns, lookout roles, the whole ugly machine. A crime that big doesn’t stay “unsolved” by accident.

The father speaking out isn’t asking for a miracle. He’s asking for the one thing any government owes its people and its neighbors: arrests that stick, trials that move, sentences that mean something. Mexico’s line has long been that cartels are powerful, the terrain is hard, the system is strained. Fine. But when “about 100” participants can melt away without a courtroom consequence, it stops sounding like strain and starts sounding like surrender. If nobody pays, everybody learns.

And Americans are not crazy to connect this to the border debate. These aren’t separate worlds. The cartels that can assemble a small army to slaughter a mistaken convoy are the same outfits moving fentanyl and migrants, bribing officials, and turning whole regions into no-go zones. We can respect Mexico as a country and still say the obvious: when justice can’t reach mass killers, it won’t reliably reach traffickers either. You can’t partner with a black hole.

This is where “America First” stops being a slogan and becomes a checklist. Secure the border, yes. But also demand measurable cooperation, not vague promises and photo ops. If Mexico wants U.S. support, start by putting real names in real courtrooms for a massacre the world already knows happened. The families deserve that. And so do the rest of us who don’t want cartel rule creeping north, one unpunished atrocity at a time.