ALBUQUERQUE — The editor of one of New Mexico’s leading newspapers, The Albuquerque Journal, issued an apology on Thursday over an editorial cartoon that many people interpreted as a bigoted attack on Hispanics.

Prompting outrage from prominent Democrats and Republicans in the state, the cartoon, by Sean Delonas, depicts a white couple being accosted in a back alley by three men. One is holding the couple at gunpoint and taking the woman’s purse. Another is wearing a jacket emblazoned with “MS-13,” the name of a gang that President Trump and others have repeatedly invoked to denounce illegal immigration. The third has on a ski mask and a suicide vest of smoking explosives.

The male victim tells the woman, “Now, honey ... I believe they prefer to be called ‘Dreamers,’” a reference to young undocumented immigrants predominantly from Latin America, and adds, “Or future Democrats.”