HEC/News: ATF warns spring breakers against Mexico travel (The Washington Post)

HEC/News
Thursday, March 5, 2009

ATF warns spring breakers against Mexico travel
The Washington Post (DC) March 2, 2009
By the Associated Press

"The Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives has taken the unusual step of urging college students to
avoid parts of northern Mexico during spring break..."

"The warning goes a step further than one issued by the State Department
last month advising travelers to Mexico to avoid areas of prostitution
and drug-dealing and to take other commonsense precautions..."

Full article available at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/02/AR200903
0202318.html

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