Deportees

Here is a song about an issue that people need to think about a bit harder than they are right now in the USA (or in Denmark vis a vis Moroccans, or Germany viz Turkish guest workers). I wonder what people in the USA think we can do to replace the labor that Latino migrants are doing right now? (See the movie "A Day Without a Mexican" for the funny version of that.) You can see a number of stories recently about farmers moving to Mexico if they can't get the workers they need in the USA. (There are some similar stories about Danish farmers moving to Poland.) The USA is also, fortunately, one of the few countries in the industrialized world that is not facing a labor shortage, or a dangerously aging population, due in large part to folks like these who work hard, get paid badly and treated poorly. Which is the real point, how can we justify treating other human beings as less than fully human?

The song also happens to be done by two amazing people, including the son of the author, so enjoy.

(And thanks to Sam for giving me the idea to embed YouTube songs in the blog.)