Folk Songs About Immigration

Songs about immigration, both legal and illegal, across the border.

Woody Guthrie\ Deportee (covered by many - notably Lila Downs)
Tom Russell\ Who's Gonna Build Your Wall?\ Who's Gonna Build Your Wall?\ HighTone
Tim Tedrow and Terry Vreeland \ Border Lullaby \ Songs We Stone From our Friends \ Trough
 "The Land of the Free"  (Cliff Eberhardt)
"Bracero" (Joe Jencks)
an oldie: "Migrant Worker" (Jim Croce)
"La Migra Viene" - Chuck Brodsky
Andrew McKnight: "These Shoes" from Something Worth Standing For
The Bedlam Rovers do a song titled No One's Illegal
Tom Russell's song California Snow
There are a couple of relevant songs on Bruce Springsteen's Ghost Of Tom
Joad album
I always liked 'Red Cat Til I Die' on Ry Cooders My Name Is Buddy album, all
about Carlos Bulosan.
Buffy Ste. Marie doing 'Welcome Emigrante' on the Broadside reissue box set
as well as a couple of songs by El Teatro Campesino on that release.
A Prayer for Josseline  - 2009 Single - Low Tide Drifters
Guanajuato - David Rovics - on his Sound Click and on Ten Thousand Miles Away - BMI
If I Give Your Name - Emma's Revolution - One 2004
Bob Franke - Krystallnacht Is Coming
Robert Earl Keen - Mariano
David Massengill (or Lucy Kaplansky) - My Name Joe
Tish Hinojosa - Something in the Rain
Anne Hills - A Shadow Crossing the Land
Si Kahn / Hutto / Courage
"Why We Build The Wall" by Anais Mitchell from Hadestown, sung by  
Greg Brown.
Bracero - Joe Jencks - Links in a Chain (or Phil Ochs original)
Paul Edward Sanchez CD Home by Morning has a good song
called Border Lullaby
SONES DE MEXICO ENSEMBLE: "Esta Tierra Es Tuya" title cut of  "Esta Tierra 
Es Tuya" "This Land is Your Land"  

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann