Fresno Bee Opinion Editor Juan Esparza Loera connects the 1948 plane crash that killed 28 Mexican nationals being deported to today’s deportation efforts.

The story of the Los Gatos flight that took off 77 years ago and exploded became a folk song that remains part of the canon of American protest music.

Running against time, dozens of people meticulously fix broken limbs and reconstruct disfigured faces — but with plaster, gouges and sandpaper.