@logonaut.eth

Unsurprisingly, the ICE post marking the grim anniversary repeats the lie that all 28 migrants were in the U.S. illegally. Some, maybe even most of them, were in the U.S. legally with the Bracero Program — an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that allowed Mexican citizens braceros to take temporary agricultural work in the United States. Employers were obligated to transport these "braceros" to border reception centers at the end of their work contracts, for return to Mexico. But some farmers shirked this duty to avoid the cost, effectively stranding their otherwise lawful migrant workers in the U.S. and prompting U.S. immigration enforcement to pick up the slack and return the workers. So, yeah, at least some of the migrant workers on the ill-fated 1948 flight were aboard that plane because unscrupulous agribusiness owners broke the law.

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