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Examples of wetback
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We have two open fires, one with a wetback, so we had heat and hot water.
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Hispanic groups said the use of the word wetback was derogatory.
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For the hapless Mexicans, it was the end of a dream of jobs in Chicago as illegal wetback immigrants.
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Most wetback workers make it across the border on their own.
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In winter its wood-burning wetback stove is used both for cooking and heating water, warming radiator-style heaters in the two premium bedrooms and office.
From the nzherald.co.nz
He was a 14-year-old wetback from Guadalajara who had crossed the border illegally to earn money to help support his large and fatherless family in Mexico.
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To finance all of Marcy's dear dreams, Charlie agrees to look the other way when illegal immigrants are spirited across the border to serve as the wetback-bone of Texas agriculture.
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- Greaser: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent
- "Wetback" is a term for Mexicans who immigrate illegally to the United States. It is generally used as an ethnic slur, and is sometimes applied to Mexican-Americans or others of Latin American descent. ...
- A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border; A person of the Mestizo race, used interchangeably with the Spanish term, mojado
- N: Used as a disparaging term for a Mexican, especially a laborer who crosses the U.S. border illegally.
- Water from a hot water cylinder passes through a domestic heater (such as a wood burner) and back to the cylinder
- (US) Used to describe Mexican illegal immigrants, who allegedly entered the country by swimming the Rio Grande.^[175]
