DPS: No, Really, Don’t Go To Mexico

In case you were planning any trips to violence-ridden Mexico, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety says don’t — again.

Today, DPS Director Steve McCraw issued a warning against traveling south of the border for the fourth time in the last year. DPS cited the recent killing of a missionary, along with several other killings and kidnappings involving U.S. citizens who ventured into Mexico.

“We know that many of our Winter Texans enjoy traveling to Mexico, but they should understand that we cannot guarantee their safety after they cross the border,” McCraw said in the release. “If violence does occur, we cannot guarantee that anyone will be brought to justice for those acts.”

If you choose not to heed DPS’s advice (or just plain common sense) and go to Mexico anyway, the agency encourages you to register with the U.S. Embassy or Consulate through its website: https://travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs/ui/.

This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at http://trib.it/fHeSqf.

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Brandi Grissom joined the Tribune after four years at the El Paso Times, where she has been a one-woman Capitol bureau during the last two legislative sessions. Grissom won the Associated Press Managing Editors 1st place award in 2007 for using the Freedom of Information Act to report stories on a variety of government programs and entities, and the ACLU of Texas named her legislative reporter of the year in 2007 for her reporting about immigration issues. She previously worked for the Alliance Times-Herald, the Taylor Daily Press, the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung and the Associated Press, and was managing editor at the Daily Texan. A native of Alliance, Nebraska, she has a degree in history from the University of Texas at Austin.

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