Texas Officials to Border Farmers: "Arm Yourselves"

The Dallas Morning News reports that Texas officials are advising farmers who live along the Mexican border to "arm yourselves" after an escalation of violence that has resulted in the murder of at least one U.S. farm family. Much of the threat is from spillover violence as rival gangs battle it out for control of entire towns, blockade military bases they think are supporting another faction, and even fabricate IEDs.