File No. 812.48/3140
Mr. Parker, representing American interests, to the Secretary of State
314. Department’s 330, May 13, 2 p.m. Since Department’s authorization of March 20, transportation has been furnished to twenty persons, about half men. There are about 275 on the destitute list of whom probably 100 are native born Americans, the remainder being Mexican women legally married to Americans with their minor children. This latter class would be better off here in any event. Persons other than destitutes who have left have done so principally as the result of urgent telegrams from relatives in the United States. American colony here is practically reduced to those whose business interests require their presence here together with [Page 691] their families and is conservatively estimated at 1,200. Department’s advice relative to departure of Americans is being discreetly made known.