Deportee {Plane Crash At Los Gatos} (1) - Green Acres

🚨🍑🚨[Green Acres]🚨🍑🚨

 

I debated going the subtle route. Just letting words of this brilliant, moving song written by Woody Guthrie in 1948, about the tragic plan crash in Southern California, killing 4 Americans and 28 migrant farm workers who were being deported from California back to Mexico.

 

But I have some thoughts on this topic I would like to express.

 

When I was 12 to 18yo I worked every summer on a dairy farm in NE Indiana. Honestly I give this much credit for the man I grew into. With that said there is no harder life than working the fields.

 

Fast forward to adult me, I spent my 40 year working life in the construction industry. I have the privilege to have worked with many hard working, family focused, immigrants from nearly every continent on earth. Some were 1st or 2nd generation Americans some naturalized citizens, some were holders of green cards and I am sure some were undocumented. Personally In my own company everyone filled out the I-9 form that all employers are required to keep.

 

I have lived my whole life in a state that once was part of Mexico, (other than my summers on the farm) 40% of Californians identify as Hispanic or Latino, representing the largest ethnic group in the state. I am saddened and pretty fucking pissed off by this attack on this vulnerable population by ICE & other federal law enforcement. This overreach where you are picked up merely for the color of your skin or your place of employment is racism in its clearest definition. You have to ask yourself the rhetorical question why you never see the boss being held in account having employed the undocumented?

 

Why do these federal law enforcement officers choose to cover their faces with mask? Why wont they identify what agency they are affiliated with? When I was kid it was the bad guys who wore the mask.

 

Before you say "Kidd wants open borders" I in fact do not. I want work permits, I want pathways for the worthy to live here legally without the fear of being rounded up by masked men and sent some black shithole prison in El Salvador without due process.

 

We are a nation of immigrants, we need to stop the repugnant bullshit, it service no purpose other than make Steven Millers limp dick hard and line his pockets in his investments in Palantir, one of ICE’s most prominent contractors.

 

Ok done ......Sorry but I feel like a salmon swimming up stream.

 

Peace Out

 

Kidd

 

 

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🎼[Deportee (Arlo Guthrie / Hoyt Axton)] 🎼

 

🎼[Deportee (Nanci Griffith / Lucinda Williams / Steve Earle)] 🎼

 

🎼[Deportee (Bob Dylan / Joan Baez)] 🎼

 

🎼[Deportee (Bruce Springsteen)] 🎼

 

The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting,

The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;

They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border

To pay all their money to wade back again

 

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,

Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;

You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,

All they will call you will be "deportees"

 

My father's own father, he waded that river,

They took all the money he made in his life;

My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,

And they rode the truck till they took down and died.

 

Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,

Our work contract's out and we have to move on;

Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,

They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.

 

We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,

We died in your valleys and died on your plains.

We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,

Both sides of the river, we died just the same.

 

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"

 

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"?

 

- Woody Guthrie

 

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🐕 💝 1095 Days 💝 🐈

 

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It's Not A Debate of Policy, It Is A Question Of Morality

 

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16 Million Americans could lose their health insurance so Billionaires can have a tax cut.

 

 

FYI I will not go quietly go into the darkness

 

1301 Days Of Suck To Go ...... Day 159

 

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