@logonaut.eth
Where ICE sees a fallen hero to be celebrated today, generations of musicians and other people of conscience going back to Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger have seen a racist immigration enforcement apparatus that left 28 migrant farm workers dead and buried in a mass grave that identified them only as "Mexican Nationals." That was in 1948.
Guthrie, outraged by the casual injustice, wrote a poem/song lamenting the migrant victims and recognizing their essential humanity and dignity. "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" has since been covered by the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Bragg.
Seventy-eight years later, we find ourselves grappling with a similarly cruel and callous immigration enforcement apparatus — one whose ongoing brutality prompted Guthrie's spiritual successors Springsteen and Bragg to release their own original protest songs today.
The rhyme of history continues.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11512311/immortalized-by-woody-guthrie-deportees-who-died-in-plane-crash-are-nameless-no-longer
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