| 21. | To cross over, to be a wetback, is . . . a baptism into a new life.
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| 22. | "Now'wetback, greasy spic,'that's offensive, " he told Novas.
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| 23. | In the crude, cruel idiom of the day, Miguel and Ana Loya were " wetbacks ."
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| 24. | Vern describes himself as a wetback from Kentucky who swam the Ohio River forty years ago and never went back.
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| 25. | The continuation of illegal immigration despite the efforts of Operation Wetback was largely responsible for the failure of the program.
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| 26. | In areas where electricity was not yet available, a chip heater on wetback and a coal range were installed.
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| 27. | Earlier this year, police confiscated a roster for Wetback Power, the state's largest Hispanic gang in Scottsdale.
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| 28. | At first, he was taunted in his East Harlem neighborhood as a " mojado, " a wetback.
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| 29. | *American they say, others label all of us cuban descendants or immigrants with cruel petnames like rafters or wetbacks.
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| 30. | It is estimated that before Operation Wetback got under way, more than a million workers had crossed the Rio Grande illegally.
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