Travel warnings expand in Mexico, relocation may be imminent

As the drug war continues to rage on in Mexico, The U.S. State Department has issued new warnings for Americans who are traveling and living there. The Department said that more than one-third of the 111 Americans who were killed in Mexico last year fell victim in one of the border towns of Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana.

"There's pretty much no state that hasn't been touched by this," Fred Burton, vice president of the Stratfor global intelligence agency, told CNN.

The State Department said that, on top of the millions of travelers that visit Mexico every year, another 1 million live there permanently.

"I felt totally safe there. We had no problem at all. You have to be mindful of what's going on, but there aren't people attacking anybody, especially expats," Howard Feldstein, who runs a retirement community for Americans in Jalisco, told the news source.

While Feldstein spoke of their enjoyable lifestyle in the tropical climate, the State Department reiterated the fact that innocent bystanders could get caught in the crossfire. 

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