DPS Advises Against Spring Break Trips To Mexico

AUSTIN, Texas -- A law enforcement agency in Texas has raised safety concerns and advised students on spring break to avoid Mexico.

The Department of Public Safety on Tuesday issued the advisory, citing continued violence throughout Mexico.

The U.S. State Department last month recommended that Americans avoid travel to all or parts of 14 of 31 Mexican states. It's the widest travel advisory issued by the U.S. since Mexico stepped up its drug war in 2006.

DPS Director Steven McCraw says Mexican drug cartel violence and other criminal activity represent a significant safety threat, even in some resort areas.

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[porscheguy]

09:42 PM on 03/09/2012

I've been here in Mexico 5 months now. Safe as I have ever been. All you rednecks need to stay home.

[Frankko]

01:57 AM on 03/09/2012

With one hundred million American drug users it would be better for the government to tell Americans to avoid using drugs for they are the cause of the drug cartel violence in Mexico.

[Jerry Bourbon]

11:41 AM on 03/09/2012

If our own government, acting through the ATF, would stop ARMING the cartels, that would go a long way toward reducing the violence too...

[Jerry Bourbon]

12:48 AM on 03/09/2012

Wimps.

[cuteliberalchick]

12:40 AM on 03/08/2012

This is place to enjoy let kids have fun

[J R M]

12:24 AM on 03/08/2012

Spring break? Vacation? Aside from an occasional caving trip, which never lasted more than 3 days, Spring Break was a time to work - I was a machinist and instrument designer. I had a deal with my professor I could work insane hours in such periods and we would book the hours. Then during the normal class period we could feed the booked up hours into our work schedule to fill it out. It helped with the costs and by keeping a private accounting, we leveled the hours we charged so that the administration never got bent out of shape over our work hours. I had some close calls, like walking into a lab one Sunday and smelling Hydrogen Cyanide, but I became a chemical safety specialist very rapidly and survived my college years.

[King7David]

11:35 PM on 03/07/2012

México está perdiendo mucho dinero, por lo que deberían hacer algo acerca de este problema.

[Fran Jaime]

03:10 AM on 03/08/2012

El año pasado entraron aún más turistas que en años anteriores. Este año se espera alrededor de 22 millones de turistas extranjeros. No todo mundo tiene miedo.

[SO12]

12:59 PM on 03/08/2012

Just another holiday destination

Cancun killings linked to cartels: Body of Brigadier General found near Cancun Posted on March 7, 2011

http://mcauleysworld.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/cancun-killings-linked-to-cartels-body-of-brigadier-general-found-near-cancun/

[King7David]

03:33 PM on 03/08/2012

Pero imaginemos cuánto más dinero México podría estar haciendo si ellos se encargaron de este problema.

[maya0]

07:29 PM on 03/08/2012

SI, no votar por Josefina"mas de los mismo"Mota. El PAN a permitido el chaos que deslumbre d pais. Solo con AMLOve vamos a sacar a Mexico adelante. Ama a tu pais, Vota X AMLO este 1 de Julio 2012.
Yes dont vote for Josefina"more of the same"Mota. The PAN party has permited the chaos that has blinded the country. Only AMLO(Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador) will pull Mexico forward. Love your country and vote for AMLO this 1 of July 2012.

[expat50]

07:15 PM on 03/07/2012

New Orleans has a higher murder rate than any city in Mexico with the exception of Ciudad Juarez. Detroit and Washington DC have murder rates higher than Tijuana did last year. Read the State Dept. warning in its entirety instead of the blubs on the web. It paints a much different picture than you have been hearing even though it is still too broad.

[TS69]

06:26 PM on 03/07/2012

lower the drinking age back to 18 and they will stay home.

[mira chancleta]

05:08 PM on 03/07/2012

That's settles it!

Now we all know there the Kardashian "girls" get those tans...
and meet all their husbands.

[timesrtough]

03:36 PM on 03/07/2012

Should we also be receiving travel warnings about East LA and other cities with a barrio centric culture?
Just wondering.

[andreabeth7]

04:17 PM on 03/07/2012

No one is going to go to East LA for spring break.

[timesrtough]

04:44 PM on 03/07/2012

No one should go to East LA for anything except trouble and or drugs.

[Sebastin Emmanuel Mata]

06:31 PM on 03/07/2012

I bet the DPS gives travel warnings to anybody going to wherever you are due to the toxic levels of racism.

[andreabeth7]

06:47 PM on 03/07/2012

They would have to put out a travel warning to avoid you.

[timesrtough]

07:02 PM on 03/07/2012

So I have it wrong and East LA is a warm, friendly welcoming and crime free area of Greater LA? Nothing unusual going on there. Just another example of a typical American neighborhood. Mon & Pop business, ice cream parlors, kids playing in the streets, well-kept parks, trash free streets and everyone greets you with "Hi neighbor." Sort a Mayberry transported to LA.
Sorry if the truth hurts but you are defending the indefensible.
Why do you see uncomfortable truth as racism? Is it because you are embarrassed by East LA and similar neighborhoods? If you aren’t you should be. In fact we all should be embarrassed to have let this happen to a once vibrant and attractive part of the city.

[Walrus Man]

04:15 PM on 03/07/2012

KKK'er? Every time I see people like you, hater and xenophobic I know you might think you came from a more advanced planet, but you my friend, also came from Africa.

[MTY INDACHI]

07:16 PM on 03/07/2012

before you share your feelings, you should learn the difference between worse and worst. learn your language before looking elsewhere.....i'm mexican, proud of it, and am a better person than you every day of the week and twice on sundays.

[rioderek]

02:20 AM on 03/08/2012

If that were true; which of course its not, what do your comments have to do with the fact Mexico is a dysfunctional cesspool whos citizens flee at record rates.

[paulwl]

02:47 PM on 03/07/2012

No safer around the Bubbas in 'uniforms' who just want to 'TEACH' the little co-eds a lesson themselves!

[dawglover704]

02:32 PM on 03/07/2012

You have to be safe to go to Mexico.
Unlike a lot of the teen/twenty yearolds

[mpstar]

01:24 PM on 03/07/2012

you gotta out of your mind to go to Mexico........you will likley be kidnapped,shot during ur dinning out,,or be caught in cross fire,or robbed.......You cross the Border ,,,your rights as an American citizen are gone,,,,,,,,,,,,

[tanguapo]

04:34 PM on 03/07/2012

Really? I'm a U.S. citizen living in Mexico. I've never had any problems at all, let alone the things you mention.

[inthedesert]

08:32 PM on 03/08/2012

And, I would imagine that you are Mexican. LOL.

[Paul Moreno]

03:14 PM on 03/08/2012

Yeah, and if you live in California, you see movie stars everyday, everyone has had plastic surgery and we all drive convertibles! grow up!

[Cody Wandel]

01:20 PM on 03/07/2012

Don't be mad about a warning people. Ciudad Juarez is currently the most dangerous city in the entire world. Sinaloa and Michoacan are mafia run states and dangerous to even local Mexicanos. Any government has a duty to it's people to issue travel warnings to any dangerous place. I hope one day things get better, because I'd love to go to those beautiful places.