{"id":2023376,"date":"2023-09-06T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T16:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-consulate-in-mexico-border-town-tells-staff-to-shelter-in-place-amid-violence\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:00:49","slug":"us-consulate-in-mexico-border-town-tells-staff-to-shelter-in-place-amid-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-consulate-in-mexico-border-town-tells-staff-to-shelter-in-place-amid-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"US Consulate in Mexican Border Town Advises Staff to Stay Indoors Due to Violence."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-consulate-in-mexico-border-town-tells-staff-to-shelter-in-place-amid-violence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023376&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Gun Violence\u2063 Forces U.S. Consulate Employees to Shelter in Place in Mexican Border \u2062Town<\/h2>\n<p>In the northern Mexican \u2062border\u2064 town of Matamoros,\u2062 the\u2064 U.S. Consulate is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-californian-kimmel-mocks-bucs-fans-floridians-as-stupid-on-virus-here-are-some-fl-versus-ca-stats\/\" title=\"WATCH: Californian Kimmel Mocks Bucs Fans, Floridians As Stupid On Virus. Here Are Some FL Versus CA Stats.\">taking precautions<\/a> as \u200dits employees are currently under a shelter in\u200c place\u200d order due to the escalating gun violence in the \u2064city.<\/p>\n<p>Matamoros, which shares a border with the southern \u2062U.S. city of Brownsville in Texas, has been plagued by violence associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/right-wing-presidential-candidate-assassinated-by-organized-crime-after-vowing-to-take-on-crime\/\" title=\"Right-wing candidate assassinated by 'organized crime' after pledging to combat crime.\">drug\u2064 trafficking<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farmers-insurance-cuts-policies-in-turbulent-florida-insurance-market\/\" title=\"Farmers Insurance reduces policies amidst Florida's volatile insurance market.\">recent\u200d years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly advise you \u200dto \u2062stay indoors\u2064 and stay updated \u200cwith local news for\u200d any developments\u2063 in your area,&#8221; urged the \u2064U.S. Consulate General \u2062on X,\u200c the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carlos-santana-tells-concert-crowd-god-made-you-and-me-and-a-woman-is-a-woman-and-a-man-is-a-man\/\" title=\"Carlos Santana affirms: 'We are all creations of God' and 'Gender is binary: women are women and men are men'.\">popular social media\u200c platform<\/a> formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/pentagon-extends-troop-deployment-at-us-mexico-border-through-september-5485384\">Pentagon Extends\u200c Troop Deployment at \u2064US-Mexico Border Through September<\/a><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <strong>Date: 9\/2\/2023<\/strong>\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/world\/texas-national-guard-member-separated-from-position-after-discharging-weapon-on-mexican-man-across-border-in-mexico-mexican-authorities-say-5484740\">Texas National \u2062Guard Member \u2062&#8217;Separated From Position&#8217; \u200bAfter \u2064Discharging Weapon on Mexican Man\u2064 Across \u2063Border in Mexico, Mexican Authorities Say<\/a><br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        <strong>Date: 9\/1\/2023<\/strong>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City has not \u200dyet responded to a request for comment regarding the\u200c situation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, a\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-consulate-in-mexico-border-town-tells-staff-to-shelter-in-place-amid-violence\/\" title=\"US Consulate in Mexican Border Town Advises Staff to Stay Indoors Due to Violence.\">tragic incident \u2062occurred<\/a> \u2062in Matamoros where two Americans lost\u2062 their lives after being mistakenly kidnapped\u2062 by members \u200cof a drug cartel.\u200b This incident\u2063 shed\u200b light\u2063 on the alarming levels of violence in Mexico and drew criticism from U.S. lawmakers who questioned the effectiveness of Mexico&#8217;s \u200bcrime-fighting\u2063 efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that U.S. citizens avoid travel to Matamoros until the security situation improves,&#8221; the consulate added. The shelter in place order was issued as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of consulate employees amidst the ongoing gun violence. Matamoros has experienced a surge in drug-related violence, making it unsafe for travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2023377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}