Definition of "wetbacks" []

• Plural form of wetback; a slur towards persons of Mexican descent in the United States (noun)

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• "The argument "we can't afford to pay a U.S. citizen a fair wage, so let's legalize (and then get rid of when the crops are in) some wetbacks" is a thinly disguised argument for the greed of U.S. citizens for cheap produce, and of U.S. megacorporations for lower-priced strawberries and sugar to capture ever larger portions of the international market -- and incidentally to force other producing nations to underpay their own workers in order to stay in the game."
• "In his generation, we were known as wetbacks and illegals."
• "They used to be called wetbacks, but that was judged to harsh and even "racist.""