The farmworkers were NOT deportees, but rather part of the U.S.-Mexico “Bracero” program, whereby Mexican farm workers could come to the U.S to work in the fields and then be returned to Mexico after the work contract was done. A newspaper report of the plane crash called them "deportees."

The 28 migrant farm workers who died in a 1948 plane crash were NOT deportees. They were part of the U.S.-Mexico “Bracero” program, where Mexican farm workers could come to the U.S to work the fields and then be returned to Mexico after the work contract was done. A newspaper dubbed them deportees.

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, “They are just deportees”

The story behind "Deportee," runs deep. This post below tells the story behind "Deportee", gives the full lyrics to it and has links to performances of it by artists such as Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and others.

arcata1.com/deportee-plane-wreck-at-los-gatos/

‪genosmiles‬ ‪@genosmiles.bsky.social‬
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How do old timers expect young people to vote in two years? As Bob Dylan once wrote:

"Your old road is rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'"

‪genosmiles‬ ‪@genosmiles.bsky.social‬

How do old timers expect young people to vote in two years? As Bob Dylan once wrote:

"Your old road is rapidly aging

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changing

In the darkness of the Winter Solstice....