that lyric was written and song by perhaps the most liberal song writer in history, woodie guthrie.jo people thought about that, or the sioux. this land was made for you and me. when i was a kid, i never wondered how the mexican people thought about that song since california was once mexico, and woody guthrie's gulf stream waters? we purchased louisiana in 1803 from the people who stole it from the tribes who were there before them. so no, the land was not made for you and me. but by the time woody guthry started singing the song, by world war ii, fact and fiction in mythology. it was not made for you and me, and we had to seize it. the southern border is 109 years old in its current form because arizona and new mexico did not become states until 1912, so their southern borders did not become the southern borders of america until 1912. the rio grande river was not the southern border of the state of texas until 1848 when we seized land from mexico in war. all of the current southern border was taken by force from mexico in war. and borders established by the see zur of land by war

but by the time woody guthry started singing the song, fact and fiction in mythology.eize it. the southern border is 109 years old in its current form because arizona and new mexico did not become states until 1912, so their southern boarders did not become the southern borders of america until 1912. the rio grande river was not the texas border until 1848. all of the current southern border was taken by force from mexico in war. and borders seized by war are the borders that have had problems in history. and when you seize the most valuable land in a country, you will cause a permanent, massive economic dislocation in that country, and that's what we did to mexico. the most valuable land in the world ever permanently seized in war is california. if california were a country, it would be the fifth richest economy in the world. california is rich in agricultural resources, manufacturing, international trade. the discovery of gold brought california its first big surge of fortune seekers and they continued to come to california to pursue their dreams and pursue gold trop

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