Nazi – Fascists’ Aims in Mexico Are Under Fire

Notable among recent developments in the anti-Semitic situation has been the cessation of attacks on Jews by the leading daily newspapers of this city, who seem to have changed their policy and are instead assailing the activities of the Accion Revolucionaria Mexicanista (Golden Shirts), the Nazi-Fascist organization which had been leading the anti-foreign campaign, especially against the Jews.

El Universal, one of the leading morning newspapers, published an editorial in which it emphasized that Mexico needs immigrants, citing the examples of the United States and Mexico, which were built up as strong countries with the aid of European immigration. The editorial further pointed out that Mexico is still thinly populated and needs “active, vigorous, economically useful” elements to help make the country progress along the upward path it has taken.

The editorial indicated opposition to the idea of restricting immigration merely because the United States has done so, pointing out the difference of situations in the two countries and stressing the point that Mexico has far from reached the saturation point. The fact that the United States has strongly discriminated against Mexican immigrants, and that they have been subjected frequently to arbitrary action by American immigration authorities, especially in the Southwest, was pointed out as one factor which led to tightening of the immigration laws of this country.