Wetback

[Couch Potatoe]

Wetback is a derogatory term used to describe Mexicans who have immigrated illegally to the United States by swimming or wading across the Rio Grande--the river that separates the U.S. from Mexico. U.S. Border Patrol began using the word in 1944 to refer to illegal Mexican immigrants who were easily identifiable by their wet clothing.
In 1954, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service made the word wetback official by naming the mission to remove illegal immigrants from the United States, Operation Wetback . In response to the increase of immigrants during the early 1950s, the agency developed the program to force immigrants (particularly Mexicans) back to their home countries. Aproximately one million Mexican Americans were deported in one year.

Today the term wetback is often used to express animosity towards Central American or Latin American immigrants--legal and illegal--who do not speak English. Meanwhile, in an attempt to reclaim the word, some Mexican-Americans call themselves Los Mojados, meaning the wet ones.

~ This definition courtsey of www.gurl.com

[Tanya Shivari]

Another name for [Latin] [Americans] living in [the United States].

[Becky]

An illegal Mexican immigrant who most likely has wetback amigos to. The term came from Mexicans hopping the border into America working in the hot sun 12 hours a day for 2 [US dollars] an hour, in the summer and eventually they get sweat on there backs hence the term wetback. This is the working wetback.
There is an estimated 11 MILLION Illegal [wetbacks] in America. But the ones who do not work which are most are is a brutal wetback gang which they copied off the Italian s. Damn wetbacks could not think of there own gang name so instead of Mafia they are [Mexican Mafia] or [MS-13]. The MS-13 is thee largest gang in the entire world and that is a shameful fact. While you are all agreeing to the pathetic act to ban assault weapons guess who loves [ASR] the wetback mafia. Even if there was an assault ban these scumbags would die for there assault rifle.
MY CLOSING STATEMENT
[Wetbacks] are not only illegal but brutal killers and drug traffickers. Why are they still in our country? Our president invited them. The slime and filthy ways of a wetback has spread like cancer.

[Britney]

1.The reason [the USA] is becoming a third-world country.
2.a [lousy] mexican that is stealing american [jobs] and living off the governmaent.

[Jason Yan]

A sub-human being that has 10 babies that they cant take care of so they get government assistance([foodstamps], medical etc.) they have no ability to learn or reason and have this false sense of [mexican pride] when they [cross over] here because Mexico is poor.

[Dave Paprocki]

A word that [refer] to all [mexican] [fools]

[Jason Yan]

A slang term used to describe illegal aliens of Mexican heritage.

[Alcoholics]

Cheap [labor]

High [pork and beef] diet

[Merna]

[Offensive] [mexican] [term].

[Julene]

a mexican that [cross] the [rio grande] just to get to [america].

[Dave Paprocki]

A derogatory term used to describe Mexicans who have immigrated illegally to the United States by swimming or [wading] across the Rio Grande--the river that separates the U.S. from Mexico. U.S. Border Patrol began using the word in 1944 to refer to illegal Mexican immigrants who were easily identifiable by their wet clothing. Today the term wetback is often used to express animosity towards Central American or Latin American immigrants--legal and illegal--who do not speak English. Meanwhile, in an attempt to reclaim the word, some [Mexican-Americans] call themselves [Los Mojados], meaning the wet ones.