many americans will remember a song produced by willie guthrie, and saying beautifully by joan calledeportee. it was about a terrible plane crash that occurred in 1948. in which a number of mexicans being deported were killed. there were 30 to people on the flight. 28 of them were mexicans. what impressed when he guthrie was that the newspapers only reported the names of white pilots, and so on who were on the plane. but everybody else was referred to as a deportee. not named in the reports. in some ways, it dramatized what was going on. we had taken this, labor we were using the sleeper and that we need to get rid of the sleeper. by the middle of the 19 fifties, 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. almost over 1 million were 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. here it was with respect to our southern neighbor.