Off and on for several years we employed a wetback, an illegal alien, who worked around the house and yard. |
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Oh look at this wonderful American marrying this poor wetback just so she can stay in the country. |
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In countries such as Spain, governments have turned a blind eye to illegals for decades because they know the farmers need cheap wetback workers to work in the fields. |
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Soon the Chicano campesino realizes that this Farm worker from Vietnam never ever called him a wetback or a greaser. |
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Wetback, she once told me, meant anyone who sacrificed everything for a better life. |
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Farther north at the Rio Grande, Laufer lights in an area he covered in an earlier book, Wetback Nation. |
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