many americans will remember a song produced by woody guthrie and sung very beautifully by joan baezdeportee." it was about a terrible plane crash that occurred in 1948 in which a number of mexicans being deported were killed. there were 38 -- 32 people on the flight, 28 of them were mexicans, and what impressed woody guthrie was the fact that the newspapers only reported the names of the white pilots and so on who were on the plane, but everybody else was referred to as a deportee and not named in the reports. in some ways it dramatized what was going on. we had taken this labor. we were using this labor, and now we wanted to get rid of this labor. by the middle of the 1950s during the eisenhower administration, there was an operation called most unfortunately operation wet back, which was designed to dump even more mexicans out of the united states and across the border. in all there were over a million who were actually deported during operation wet back. but this is the kind of love/hate relationship with labor from abroad that america had had for a long, long time, and here it w