Sentence examples for wetback from inspiring English sources

The mobs hire street gangs of illegal migrants—such as "Calle 30" ("30th Street") in San Diego or "Wetback Power" in Phoenix to carry out executions.

Is it a more hurtful racial epithet than insults such as kike, wop, wetback, mick, chink, and gook?

"This is 'Three Times a Wetback,' " a young man told me.

A fierce non-conformist Gerstenson dresses like an advertising man, sport a crewcut, and sings of the virtues of parenthood, teachers and the moneyed farmer who "meets the Wetback payroll".

Even with Hispanics riding high in the public arena, the "wetback" crack by the Republican Congressman Don Young of Alaska shows bigotry is always lurking.

"El Canibal Macrobiótico (The Macrobiotic Cannibal)" (1996) tells in a few short, satirical panels painted with acrylic on traditional Mexican amate paper — which existed in pre-Columbian days and was often banned after the Spanish conquest — the story of Jim Starr of the Border Patrol, who is dedicated to fighting the "Wetback Menace".

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Some people hurl racial slurs at them, give them dirty looks or call them "wetbacks", a term of abuse recalling someone who has just swum the Rio Grande.

Many years ago Mr Walker's ranch employed a couple of "wetbacks" (the term was not so derogatory as it is today) who would work half a year each, returning to their families in the off-season.These days, says Ms Rubio-Goldsmith, migration is not circular but linear.

They asked him why he was trying to help the mojados (wetbacks)—a pejorative for Mexicans supposed to have swum across the Rio Grande.The San Luis valley, a quiet, deep-rooted spot, is a good place to start discovering how Hispanics will change America in myriad ways and how the country will change them, offering reminders that Hispanics are among America's oldest as well as its newest residents.

"If they take away all the wetbacks, who is going to listen to us?