812.00Sonora/898
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador (Téllez)
Excellency: I have the honor to refer further to your note No. 2361 of April 22, 1929,60 requesting that, provided there be no objection, wounded Mexican nationals at Sasabe, Sonora, Mexico, be permitted to enter the United States temporarily, the expense of medical attention to be paid by the Mexican Government, and to the Department’s reply of April 24, 1929.60
The appropriate branch of the Government, to which the matter was referred, now advises the Department that telegraphic instructions have been sent to the appropriate United States immigration officials on the Mexican border to the effect that various wounded Mexican nationals who have entered, or who are seeking to enter the United States at Sasabe temporarily for immediate hospital or other appropriate medical attention, assuming that they are unarmed, may be handled under Paragraph 1, Subdivision B, Rule 12, of the Department of Labor, as emergency cases.
There is quoted herewith for your convenience the paragraph cited above:
“Paragraph 1.—Aliens mandatorily excluded and seeking temporary admission from foreign contiguous territory for the purpose of undergoing medical or surgical treatment in the United States may be admitted for such purpose when it appears to the satisfaction of the immigration officer in charge that an emergency exists for immediate medical or surgical aid: Provided, That such alien shall furnish satisfactory guaranty or a bond with approved surety in the penal sum of not less than $500 conditioned that he will depart from the United States when such medical or surgical treatment is completed. Aliens of the class referred to, seeking temporary admission for the purpose of entering a private or public hospital, sanitarium, or medical institution for treatment, may be admitted for such purpose when it satisfactorily appears to the officer in charge that the designated private or public hospital or sanitarium or medical institution which the alien has arranged to enter for [Page 404] treatment has on file with the bureau a bond covering such case and properly conditioned that aliens treated in such designated hospital, sanitarium, institution will depart from the United States when such treatment is completed: Provided, That in either case above referred to alien may be required in the discretion of the officer in charge to submit an unmounted photograph of himself in duplicate. All other applications for temporary admission made by the mandatorily excluded class not herein provided for shall be submitted to the department for special ruling.”
Referring to a telephone conversation of today with a member of your Embassy on the above question, I may add that it is the Department’s understanding that the appropriate Mexican Consul will make suitable arrangements with the local United States immigration authorities for the furnishing of transportation and such guarantees as may be required in the cases of the Mexicans concerned.
Accept [etc]