Deportee

On this day in 1948, an airplane chartered by the Immigration and Naturalization Service crashed in Los Gatos Canyon, California.  The accident, commemorated in the Woody Guthrie poem, “Deportee,” took the lives of 28 Mexican migrant workers who were being involuntarily repatriated.  The victims included:

Julio Barron

Manuel Calderon

Francisco Duran

Santiago Elisandro

Rosalio Estrado

Bernabe Garcia

James A. Guardaho

Severo Lara

Elias Macias

Jose Macias

Tomas Marquez

Louis Medina

Manuel Merino

Luis Mirando

Martin Navarro

Ygnacio Navarro

Roman Ochoa

Ramon Perez

Apolonio Placentia

Ramon Portello

Guadalupe Ramirez

Alberto Raygoza

Guadalupe Rodriquez

Maria Rodriguez

Juan Ruiz

Salvadore Sandoval

Jesus Santos