Analyzing Woody's Words

http://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Deportee.htm
This song is protesting the deportation of mexican migrant workers in America. "The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon, A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills, Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves? The radio says, "They are just deportees." " What Mr. Guthrie is trying to say in this excerpt of the song is that the radio operator has no feelings of remorse for the families that lost a loved one who was being deported. What Woody is protesting here is the unethical treatment of another human being.