811.504/2447
The Ambassador in Mexico (Messersmith) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 12.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s airmail instruction No. 3602 of June 29, 194336 setting forth the interest of certain parties in the United States in facilitating the entry into the United States of the families of those Mexican agricultural laborers who were admitted during May under Public Law 45, and instructing this Embassy to ascertain from the Mexican Government whether it would [Page 558] interpose any objection to the families of these men joining them in the United States.
This matter was discussed with the Oficial Mayor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and under date of July 1, 1943 he addressed a letter to a member of the Embassy staff in which he stated that the Mexican Government could not permit families of these men to leave Mexico because the Mexican Government is under the necessity of refusing similar permission to the families of those workers who proceed by contract under the Agreement for agricultural workers dated August 4, 1942. Mr. Tello added that such movement of families would be deemed contrary to the spirit of the Agreements for which the Farm Security Administration and the War Manpower Commission are responsible.
A copy and copy in translation of Mr. Tello’s note is enclosed for the Department’s information.37
Respectfully yours,
Secretary of Embassy