wetback

1. (wetback) (2859↑, 965↓)

Also [wet back]. A slang term for those of Mexican heritage, especially illegal aliens. This slur stems from the fact that illegal Mexicans usually swim rivers to cross into other countries, hence the term wet back.

Those wetbacks are mowing my lawn.

Author: ian http://wetback.urbanup.com/405637

2. (wetback) (1365↑, 458↓)

Racial Slur refering to Mexicans. The term originates from Operation Wetback. In 1949 the Border Patrol seized nearly 280,000 illegal immigrants. By 1953, the numbers had grown to more than 865,000, and the U.S. government felt pressured to do something about the onslaught of immigration. What resulted was Operation Wetback, devised in 1954 under the supervision of new commissioner of the Immigration and Nationalization Service, Gen. Joseph Swing. Swing oversaw the Border patrol, and organized state and local officials along with the police. The object of his intense border enforcement were "illegal aliens," but common practice of Operation Wetback focused on Mexicans in general. The police swarmed through Mexican American barrios throughout the southeastern states. Some Mexicans, fearful of the potential violence of this militarization, fled back south across the border. In 1954, the agents discovered over 1 million illegal immigrants. In some cases, illegal immigrants were deported along with their American-born children, who were by law U.S. citizens. The agents used a wide brush in their criteria for interrogating potential aliens. They adopted the practice of stopping "Mexican-looking" citizens on the street and asking for identification. This practice incited and angered many U.S. citizens who were of Mexican American descent. Opponents in both the United States and Mexico complained of "police-state" methods, and Operation Wetback was abandoned.

Has Sanchez's family crossed the border yet? Those goofy wetbacks\!

Author: Alex M R http://wetback.urbanup.com/1424254

3. (Wetback) (609↑, 301↓)

"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." \wetback This definition courtsey of www.gurl.com

Ted : Damn wetback \! Ed : Take it easy, man. He came over here as a baby on his mother's back. It's not his fault.

Author: Former President Richard Nixon http://wetback.urbanup.com/1586420

4. (Wetback) (116↑, 88↓)

Offensive mexican term.

if you have 32 cousins, your most likely a wetback.

Author: Mojado\! Mojado\! http://wetback.urbanup.com/3822682

5. (wetback) (221↑, 198↓)

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

what's up with all these wetbacks in here

Author: horacio wm http://wetback.urbanup.com/3328643

6. (wetback) (251↑, 229↓)

Can have two definitions, both have a derogatory meaning towards mexicans: 1. an illegal immigrant who swims across a river to get to America. 2. a mexican whose back gets sweaty because he works all day, and his back gets wet.

"That wetback is working out in the yard."

Author: amitchell http://wetback.urbanup.com/2849147

7. (wetback) (21↑, 21↓)

a stupid term only racist chavalas use, it is supposed to be an insult to us because our backs get sweaty when we work out in the sun, yet that racist maricon who calls us wetback wouldnt last 2 minutes in the blistering heat doing what we do everyday. any one who calls mexicans wetbacks is a piece of shit who probably fucks their own cousin....o yeh n by the way, this was our land 1st, the entire south west was Mexico's but you chavalas came in and stole it....so imma go n steel ur car puto\!

skinner: look at dem der wetbacks, workin all day, their dun mad cuz we took der land frum eeem EEEERRRHHH\!\!\!\! skinner:what in tarnashons,,,,my cars gone Mexican in the car: thats what you get puto\!

Author: surenovidax3 http://wetback.urbanup.com/6226388

8. (Wetback) (231↑, 232↓)

OPERATION WETBACK. Operation Wetback was a repatriation project of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service to remove illegal Mexican immigrants ("wetbacks") from the Southwest. During the first decades of the twentieth century, the majority of migrant workers who crossed the border illegally did not have adequate protection against exploitation by American farmers. As a result of the Good Neighbor Policy, Mexico and the United States began negotiating an accord to protect the rights of Mexican agricultural workers. Continuing discussions and modifications of the agreement were so successful that the Congress chose to formalize the "temporary" program into the Bracero program,qv authorized by Public Law 78. In the early 1940s, while the program was being viewed as a success in both countries, Mexico excluded Texas from the labor-exchange program on the grounds of widespread violation of contracts, discrimination against migrant workers, and such violations of their civil rights as perfunctory arrests for petty causes. Oblivious to the Mexican charges, some grower organizations in Texas continued to hire illegal Mexican workers and violate such mandates of PL 78 as the requirement to provide workers transportation costs from and to Mexico, fair and lawful wages, housing, and health services. World War IIqv and the postwar period exacerbated the Mexican exodus to the United States, as the demand for cheap agricultural laborers increased. Graft and corruption on both sides of the border enriched many Mexican officials as well as unethical "coyote" freelancers in the United States who promised contracts in Texas for the unsuspecting Bracero. Studies conducted over a period of several years indicate that the Bracero program increased the number of illegal aliens in Texas and the rest of the country. Because of the low wages paid to legal, contracted braceros, many of them skipped out on their contracts either to return home or to work elsewhere for better wages as wetbacks. Increasing grievances from various Mexican officials in the United States and Mexico prompted the Mexican government to rescind the bracero agreement and cease the export of Mexican workers. The United States Immigration Service, under pressure from various agricultural groups, retaliated against Mexico in 1951 by allowing thousands of illegals to cross the border, arresting them, and turning them over to the Texas Employment Commission,qv which delivered them to work for various grower groups in Texas and elsewhere. Over the long term, this action by the federal government, in violation of immigration laws and the agreement with Mexico, caused new problems for Texas. Between 1944 and 1954, "the decade of the wetback," the number of illegal aliens coming from Mexico increased by 6,000 percent. It is estimated that in 1954 before Operation Wetback got under way, more than a million workers had crossed the Rio Grande illegally. Cheap labor displaced native agricultural workers, and increased violation of labor laws and discrimination encouraged criminality, disease, and illiteracy. According to a study conducted in 1950 by the President's Commission on Migratory Labor in Texas, the Rio Grande valleyqv cotton growers were paying approximately half of the wages paid elsewhere in Texas. In 1953 a McAllen newspaper clamored for justice in view of continuing criminal activities by wetbacks. The resulting Operation Wetback, a national reaction against illegal immigration, began in Texas in mid-July 1954. Headed by the commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service, Gen. Joseph May Swing, the United States Border Patrol aided by municipal, county, state, and federal authorities, as well as the military, began a quasimilitary operation of search and seizure of all illegal immigrants. Fanning out from the lower Rio Grande valley, Operation Wetback moved northward. Illegal aliens were repatriated initially through Presidio because the Mexican city across the border, Ojinaga, had rail connections to the interior of Mexico by which workers could be quickly moved on to Durango. A major concern of the operation was to discourage reentry by moving the workers far into the interior. Others were to be sent through El Paso. On July 15, the first day of the operation, 4,800 aliens were apprehended. Thereafter the daily totals dwindled to an average of about 1,100 a day. The forces used by the government were actually relatively small, perhaps no more than 700 men, but were exaggerated by border patrol officials who hoped to scare illegal workers into flight back to Mexico. Valley newspapers also exaggerated the size of the government forces for their own purposes: generally unfavorable editorials attacked the Border Patrol as an invading army seeking to deprive Valley farmers of their inexpensive labor force. While the numbers of deportees remained relatively high, the illegals were transported across the border on trucks and buses. As the pace of the operation slowed, deportation by sea began on the Emancipation, which ferried wetbacks from Port Isabel, Texas, to Veracruz, and on other ships. Ships were a preferred mode of transport because they carried the illegal workers farther away from the border than did buses, trucks, or trains. The boat lift continued until the drowning of seven deportees who jumped ship from the Mercurio provoked a mutiny and led to a public outcry against the practice in Mexico. Other aliens, particularly those apprehended in the Midwest states, were flown to Brownsville and sent into Mexico from there. The operation trailed off in the fall of 1954 as INS funding began to run out. It is difficult to estimate the number of illegal aliens forced to leave by the operation. The INS claimed as many as 1,300,000, though the number officially apprehended did not come anywhere near this total. The INS estimate rested on the claim that most aliens, fearing apprehension by the government, had voluntarily repatriated themselves before and during the operation. The San Antonio district, which included all of Texas outside of El Paso and the Trans-Pecos,qv had officially apprehended slightly more than 80,000 aliens, and local INS officials claimed that an additional 500,000 to 700,000 had fled to Mexico before the campaign began. Many commentators have considered these figure to be exaggerated. Various groups opposed any form of temporary labor in the United States. The American G.I. Forum,qv for instance, by and large had little or no sympathy for the man who crossed the border illegally. Apparently the Texas State Federation of Laborqv supported the G.I. Forum's position. Eventually the two organizations coproduced a study entitled What Price Wetbacks?, which concluded that illegal aliens in United States agriculture damaged the health of the American people, that illegals displaced American workers, that they harmed the retailers of McAllen, and that the open-border policy of the American government posed a threat to the security of the United States. Critics of Operation Wetback considered it xenophobic and heartless. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carl Allsup, The American G.I. Forum: Origins and Evolution (University of Texas Center for Mexican American Studies Monograph 6, Austin, 1982). Arnoldo De León, Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History (Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, 1993). Juan Ramon Garcia, Operation Wetback: The Mass Deportation of Mexican Undocumented Workers in 1954 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980). Eleanor M. Hadley, "A Critical Analysis of the Wetback Problem," Law and Contemporary Problems 21 (Spring 1956). Saturday Evening Post, July 27, 1946. Julian Samora, Los Mojados: The Wetback Story (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1971). Yours Truly C.J. Dominguez

This is the really story of the wetbacks.

Author: Mad Bomb http://wetback.urbanup.com/1756201

9. (wetback) (15↑, 19↓)

ILLEGAL Mexican alien

That wetback is mocking our generous country.

Author: voiceofsanity http://wetback.urbanup.com/5927818

10. (Wetback) (66↑, 71↓)

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."

Cindy: "Hey, have you heard that Rosa's parents came to Florida illegally???" Mindy: "Yeah... total wetbacks. God, why can't they just go back to Mexico??? They don't belong here."

Author: Lance's Buddy http://wetback.urbanup.com/2891658

11. (wetback) (117↑, 122↓)

A race of people who all look alike,multiply like rabbits, and work for minimal pay. They also look like George Lopez

Guy: Hey look it's a wetback\! Girl: Cool George Lopez

Author: SploogeBalls http://wetback.urbanup.com/2675134

12. (Wetback) (34↑, 40↓)

Word meaning a Mexican who crossed the border going through the Colorado river. Everyone says a Mexican is a wet back just because they crossed when it should be those cubans that should be the wetbacks. Mexicans crossed a river but cubans crossed a fucking ocean\!\! Cubans are the wetbacks not mexicans.

Cuban: hello fellow beaner Mexican: hello wetback Cuban: I'm not a wetback your a wetback Mexican: I crossed a river you crossed over an ocean. That makes you a wetback bitch. Cuban: oh Mexican: pendejo\!\!\! And people call US stupid

Author: Lick my ass hole http://wetback.urbanup.com/4367213

13. (Wetback) (114↑, 120↓)

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.

A lady you see that has 10 kids and the dad isnt around, somoene you see at the Grocery store with 2 carts full of groceries and they are Mexican and have 2 or 3 kids running around (they paid with foodstamps. That WETBACK is filling up the cart with anchor baby food

Author: tellingitlikeitis http://wetback.urbanup.com/3123296

14. (wetback) (7↑, 15↓)

Another name for Latin Americans living in the United States.

Why don't [wetbacks] barbecue? The beans keep falling through the grill.

Author: urbanlingo101 http://wetback.urbanup.com/5765709

15. (Wetback) (49↑, 57↓)

A word that refer to all mexican fools

Look at that wetback with all those kids. That wetback think he gangster. It's a whole lot of Wetbacks in here. Look at that Wetback getting his food stamps.

Author: Wetback killer http://wetback.urbanup.com/4174120

16. (wetback) (81↑, 89↓)

1. A slang term used to describe illegal aliens of Mexican heritage. 2. Alcoholics 3. Cheap labor 4. High pork and beef diet

That fucking wetback sold be these oranges.

Author: RipDaJacka http://wetback.urbanup.com/2982054

17. (wetback) (148↑, 157↓)

America's working class\!

[wetback]

Author: Tu Paparrin http://wetback.urbanup.com/3713988

18. (wetback) (70↑, 88↓)

smelly mexican whores

your mom is a wetback

Author: super mega bro bro http://wetback.urbanup.com/2894222

19. (Wetback) (14↑, 35↓)

When a guy is getting a girl from behind and spits on her back to simulate blowing his load then when the girl turns around he blows it in her face

That guy gave me a wetback last night

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20. (Wetback) (22↑, 43↓)

A alcholic drink prepared from LimeAid and Everclear or Moonshine. Often prepared in a large quantity. Alcohol added to taste. Named in reference to the famous drink 'the Margarita', of similar composition but lacking the tenacity and expediency of its poorer cousin, 'the Wetback'.

"i'll have a wetback, please"

Author: APN http://wetback.urbanup.com/2700452

21. (wetback) (18↑, 41↓)

When it is over 80 degrees out and sweat seeps through one's shirt while driving a car. When one exits the car, he or she can be referred to as a wetback, which is a degrading term since no one wants to be referred to as a mexican, especially an illegal one with a wet back.

Look at that wetback getting out of his M3. Hes such a wetback. He probably just swam across the Rio Grande.

Author: Mike Wolfsmith http://wetback.urbanup.com/1328861

22. (wetback) (10↑, 34↓)

1) when you sit in your convertible M3 BMW and your back becomes wet from the heat and the leather. 2) or a mexican who bends over picking strawberries all day and his back becomes sweaty making his shirt wet.

1) wow, look at how wet his back is... he must have a convertible M3. (Also see swamp ass) 2) we had to fire our gardener because the gate wouldn't let him in with such a wetback.

Author: Joe Jon http://wetback.urbanup.com/1328859

23. (WetBack) (15↑, 41↓)

1. Sharting while doing a handstand. 2. A wet fart that drips down your back when doing a handstand.

I ruined my favorite shirt because of a wetback.

Author: Boss Hog Daddy http://wetback.urbanup.com/3108179

24. (wetback) (44↑, 71↓)

an illegal alien who crosses the canal into america most often knowing little to no english

my mother was a wetback,she brought me here as a fetus so i cud grow up to do white ppls jobs better than them and steal them ha ha ha WETBACK POWER PUTOS

Author: ESPANA CAUDILLO http://wetback.urbanup.com/2690186

25. (wetback) (44↑, 72↓)

Somebody making more money than you, because you are too lazy to do the physically demanding jobs, or too stupid/ignorant to do the high-end jobs.

A wetback makes $50,000 a year.Tax free.

Author: imakemoremoneythanyou http://wetback.urbanup.com/3252473

26. (wetback) (10↑, 45↓)

A Female used by the Bloods (street gang) only for sex and or gratification. Wetback refering to her back constantly wet from semen (backshots)or sweat from sexual activity.

Whats poppin, blood? Is shorty a wetback? Response: Yeah, shes the jumpoff\!

Author: arturo767659934045 http://wetback.urbanup.com/2872060

27. (wetback) (264↑, 341↓)

usually refering to an illegal imigrant form t.j. wetbacks are commonly found drinking cervesa under shade trees, or sleeping on the john, to escape from duing any work. or drivng 45 mph on the freeway, with the cars muffler, if provided. dragging on the ground shooting sparks at the million people stuck behind him that have jobs to get to. wetbacks are also known for weairng out of date t shirts from the goodwill. It's not uncommon to see a 250lb male wetback wearing a pink shirt with "daddys litlle princess" printed on the front. wet backs usually become active after sunset due to the fact that the heat makes them so tired and sleepy. Never attempt any physicall alterations with a wetback everyone they know is literaly their cousin. and if you mess with one bean u mess with the whole burrito

white man- Hey... wetback, get back to work\! Wetback -Que, what , i know i'm supposed to be mopping but i'm just so tired..... so sleepy

Author: some guy i don't know http://wetback.urbanup.com/1452919

28. (Wetback) (27↑, 138↓)

To describe a person who is homosexual

Geez Walter is a Wetback

Author: Graser http://wetback.urbanup.com/2599229

29. (wetback) (127↑, 248↓)

A derogatory term for a person of hispanic origin. So called in the U.S. because hispanic people wash at least once a day.

Look at that there wetback, it aint right for a man to wash everyday like he some fairy. Im going down to the border with my rifle to stop more of them mexicans coming into this beautiful land we stole from the mexicans all them years ago. I'm a wife beater.

Author: El Watusi http://wetback.urbanup.com/1833379

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Last updated: 2012.03.01