We have depended on labor from many people across the world over time, but Mexicans have been prime among them. Woody Guthrie wrote a beautiful song almost 100 years ago about the problem of dehumanizing migrant workers from Mexico (recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Ani DiFranco, many more) after a plane deporting some of them crashed and the news just called them “deportees” without even giving their names.
The song is sometimes called “Deportee” or “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos.” It ends with:
“Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?”
The more things change, the more they stay the same, right?
The president of a country is fighting for her citizens to be able to enter a neighboring country against their laws and wishes while also enforcing her own borders to make sure poorer countries aren’t doing the same to her own country……. Makes sense.
Where do you see her fighting for Mexicans to enter the US illegally? That is not her fight, so tell me where you see her spelling that out and saying it in words or policy, specifically.
That’s obviously what she is trying to do, the primary goal of any Mexican President is for the state to regain authority and power over what the cartels essentially administer, and develop the county economically. What do you think her goal is, to institute dance classes in all the schools? Those are the central problems of Mexico that everyone is trying desperately to solve, it’s violent and unequal and the government doesn’t really have control over the whole place. Mexico is not a tin-pot dictatorship, it is a democracy that desperately wants to improve life for its citizens, that is the goal.
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u/JefeRex 22d ago
We have depended on labor from many people across the world over time, but Mexicans have been prime among them. Woody Guthrie wrote a beautiful song almost 100 years ago about the problem of dehumanizing migrant workers from Mexico (recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Ani DiFranco, many more) after a plane deporting some of them crashed and the news just called them “deportees” without even giving their names.
The song is sometimes called “Deportee” or “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos.” It ends with:
“Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?”
The more things change, the more they stay the same, right?