The U.S. State Department is warning travelers of IEDs found along dirt roads near an area of northeastern Mexico that borders McAllen, Texas.

The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico issued a travel advisory for American citizens traveling to the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas warning them over recent criminal activity at different ...

Brown compared the level of violence in Tamaulipas to the Middle East. "[It] wasn't that long ago before [the] Sinaloa Cartel was executing police officers and hanging them from bridges," Brown said.