Stay or go? U.S. residents of Mexico town torn after 9 killed

Saturday, November 9, 2019

COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico -- U.S. citizens living in a small Mexican farming community established by their Mormon ancestors are trying to decide whether they should stay or leave after burying some of the nine American women and children slaughtered last week in a drug cartel ambush.

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