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• n  (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent

• Serrano had no thought of becoming a wetback, a border-jumper.
• A wetback, fitted with a special harness and carrying cases, can haul as many as 500 birds on one trip.
• Most wetback workers make it across the border on their own.

• greaser
• taco

News & Articles

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• Target Lawsuit: Memo Referred to Mexicans as ‘Wetbacks,’ Filled With Stereotypes
  A lawsuit revealed embarrassing allegations involving a Target warehouse, including referring to Mexicans as wetbacks and stereotyping them as having a lower education level.
  July 11, 2013 - CBS Sacramento

Quotes

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• Lenny Bruce in CounterPunch
  In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, civil rights attorney Constance Rice sounding somewhat like Lenny Bruce, wrote, "But rest assured, the Imus crew has plenty of kike, wetback, mick, spick, dago, Jap, Chink, redneck and unprintable Catholic priest jokes...
• Richard Nixon in Los Angeles Times
  ("I want him checked out with regard to his gardener," Nixon told Chief of Staff HR Haldeman, a year before Watergate. "I understand he's a wetback."