Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-03-16
.IMMICRATIONLAW
SIMPLIFICATION
PLAN OF MEXICO


MEXICO CITY, March Is (By Trens
Agency)-Special identity cards are to
be issued to tourists going to Mexico
in the near future, according to
statement of Gonzalo Vazquez, sub
secretary Of the department of state.
The official was asked by the Trens
Agency to make a statement to clear
up existing difficulties at border
points and issued the following pre-
pared statement:
Il. The time limit which determines
the quality of immigrant is one which
does not exceed six months from the
date of the entry of said individual
into the country, according to his dec
laration of intent. (Clause I, Art. 26).
A Mexican does not immigrate; he re-
patriates himself.
"2 The time limit which determines
the qualification of emigrant, aliens
or our nations, is when this exceeds
six months of absence, according to
their petition and dating from the time
they leave and provided the former
have remained in the republic more
than six months. Mexican laborers,
even when they leave for shorter
time (Clause II, Art. 26).
49, Immigrants and emigrants are
required to have the individual identi-
ty card, except for minors of both
sexes. A passport never takes tho
place of an identity card.
a. The following are not immi
grants nor emigrants; The tourists,
the passengers in transit, the members
of ships crews, those who enter or
leave the country Illegally, the per-
sons included.i in Art. % of the law and
who are universally representative in
the field Of arts, science, politics,
philosophy and charity; nor are the
persons, aliens, resident in border cities
continuous to ours and who enter or
leave these for purposes of pleasure,
excursions, hunting or business. To
none of these persons is the identity
card issued which is mentioned in
Articles IA. Is, 50, 20 and II of the
immigration law.
"5 The card is not issued to aliens
included in Art. 20 of the law nor to
those who have been expelled or re-
jected from the country and who have
not a corresponding authorization
This procedure is observed toward
aliens who arrive in transit to go to
some bordering country, when they can
cross directly from the point of entry
to that of departure. Nor are cards
issued to persons who it is suspected
are attempting to immigrate clandes-
timely to the United States Of America,
taking advantage of our neighborhood
sGn mn, of Ia rd oh a
exceed, in our eonsulates, one peso, ma
tional gold, and fifty centavos at the
inspectors offices.
~ In order to migrate into the
Mexican United States, passport re-
quirements are not necessary and con-
sequently, the consular visa, nor any
expense and therefore Mexican con-
suls must not visa this document. 1t
will be issued to nationals who emil
CRATE and who have to fulfill this re-
quirement abroad
49, The tax is required only from
those who immgrate, with the excep-
tion of those who are under legal
guardianship or are related to some
person included in Articles 50 and 33
of the law, as we'll as women more
than 25 years of age, who are accom-
panying their husbands or when these
already reside in the country, or who
have persons who are related to them
by blood and are solvent therein, al
ways provided they do not intend to
work Or to marry. Neither is it col
lected from travellers who are return
ing to the republic, having been absent
from it less than six months, nor from
professional and technical men in some
research or industrial branch, who have
been contracted or invited by the exc
cutive of the unior or of the states;
nor from the laborers who immigrate
according to the provisions of Articles
and IL Of the federal colonization law
of May 10, 1926, nor from persons in
cluded in Art. 40 of the immigration
law, If their stay in the republic is for
less than six months"
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