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TUCSON - The State Department has issued another travel warning to Mexican cities and Nogales, Sonora, is on the list.

Sunday's advisory comes in the wake of deadly shootings in Juarez, Mexico.

On Saturday, a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband and one other person were shot to death near the international bridge linking Ciudad Juarez with El Paso.

Those shootings prompted the travel warnings.

The latest travel warning authorizes the departure of U.S. Consulates in Mexico's northern border towns.

The warning advises travelers to use common sense precautions, like visiting tourist areas only in the day and avoiding areas where prostitution or drug deals might occur.

"I've lived here all my life, I don't do that," says Nogales grocery store owner Arnold Montiel.

Even though the travel warning may have good safety intentions, Monitel says it's scaring away customers. "Dangers are present. People should be mindful of them but to be scared off and not come down and do your normal day to day purchases is ridiculous."

The grocery store owner wishes the Department of State would consider the economic impact a travel warning inflicts on border businesses. "Now they don't come down, they don't shop, they don't cross the line and business dies."

"I think there's always a little concern when you leave the United States," says Craig Wagner in from Chicago. "I imagine it's relatively safe with a border town such as this."

"It just says here in the travel warning that they attack people who speak out against them," says Wagner's travelling companion Linda McGivern. "We won't be speaking out. We'll just look the other way."

"We know how dangerous it is. We already know. We live here," says UA student Amy Gabusi.

Gabusi says she and a friend will heed the warning, but are going into Mexico anyway. "At least we're not travelling by ourselves. We're travelling together and not staying very long."

To read the Department of State's travel advisory in its entirety visit: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_mexico.html