Ask the Expert: Why should Americans avoid traveling to Mexico?

Four Americans have been kidnapped in Mexico and it happened when they crossed the border into Matamoros from Brownsville.

The FBI says the Americans crossed the border to buy medicine or to obtain medical procedures and ended up caught in the crossfire between two armed groups.

The US State Department has already issued a travel warning againist going there.

On Ask the Expert, Tracy Walder joined the KRLD Afternoon News tto talk about this further, as well as give advice to travelers. She is a Former CIA officer and FBI special agent.

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