New Plantations

Your man's first generation and His wife's got a file with the immigration Is it about the status of their birth Or is the color of their skin what they're worth Your man's first generation and His wife's got a file with the immigration But it's not the same somehow Cause They're not red, yellow, black or brown And you carry your flagstikas And make your proclamations, That America is for Americans While you build your new plantations concrete and steel Yeah, there's no cheaper labor than people stuck in deportation You can rent 'em for ten cents on the dollar And hold them indefinitely, in your new plantations Then America will be great again, cause The new slaves will be on the chain gang Working for free, while they wait for freedom Maybe the economist is the new racist And it's not red, yellow, black or brown Could it be, All they see is green, oh Put that in the offering plate on Sundays And visit Abuela in between At the new plantation Oooooh Let's bring it back, bring it back and make America great again Like it was when we started, when families were ripped apart And mothers were broken hearted And children were sold across oceans to make America great, yeah When Your man was first generation And His wife had a file with the immigration But it's not the same somehow 'cause You're not red, yellow, black or brown Oh, yeah, they say Oh, they say America is for Americans, is what they say But Ellis Island might beg to differ And the statue might lower her lamp and whisper Give me your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me I lift my lamp beside the golden door! But the warden will just laugh, cause My fellow Americans You sold out your nation for profit you'll never see Sold it to the highest bidder With the lowest common denominator Keep claimin' you're not racist Cause it's about the economy Your man's first generation and His wife's got a file with the immigration But it's not the same somehow 'cause They're not red, yellow, black or brown It's not racist, it's about the economy It's not racist, it's about the economy It's not racist, it's about the economy It's not racist, it's about the economy The economy