Word: wetbacks
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...frightening," says Mancillas. "There is a general concern that the economic standing of whites is slipping, and so the undocumented worker becomes a target of their fears." Before long, the competing protests have degenerated into shouting matches, with Hispanics chanting, "Racists go home!" while whites call back, "Wetback lovers...
...less gut and she had not yet become a middle-aged Barbie doll from overexposure to The Price Is Right. 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. It remains for Maria (Elpidia Carrillo), a comely Mexican who has lost her baby to an adoption ring, to bring out the best in him. When asked why he goes to near fatal lengths to help her, Charlie grunts: "I guess I gotta feel good about some...
...needed a lot of papers and a passport, which cost 800 pesos ($72). Most of the other people there were city people who had papers and money. Now I know that the only way for a campesino like me to go to the United States is as a wetback...
...oldest brother went to California as a wetback in 1966. Now he is married to a gringa, and he says they can't throw him back over the border, not now. He speaks English, he has a big house?well, bigger than anything in this village?and a car and a refrigerator, and his children go to a school where he doesn't have...
bank of the Rio Grande 27 years ago, his prospects looked dim indeed. 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...