THE BORDER REPORT

The U.S. State Department has ordered its consulate employees along the border, specifically, Tijuana, Nogales, Juárez, Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo, and Matamoros to send their families out of Mexico for a month following the murders of three people, a consulate employee and her husband and the husband of a second employee this weekend in Juárez.

Leslie (or Lesley) Enriquez and her husband, Arthur H. Redelfs, were shot in a drive-by coming into Juárez. Ten minutes earlier, the body of the husband of a second consular employee, Jorge Alberto Salcido, was found by Chihuahua police.

Couple of thoughts on the matter. Sources within Homeland Security and the Mexican CIA (CISEN) are putting the responsibility for the killings on Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. They say the killings were propagated by the Sinaloa Federation in Juárez.

Reforma has a story where the Feds are saying it was La Linea so clearly nobody knows or, rather, nobody's saying.

The gunmen used nine-millimeters to conduct the killings; these people were clearly targeted. But why.

I wonder about the drug trial that just ended in El Paso; Fernando Ontiveros-Arambula was sentenced late last week. His case was instrumental in the charges against the Sinaloa Federation. Lots to wonder about here.

Lots.