(1) In countries such as Spain, governments have turned a blind eye to illegals for decades because they know the farmers need cheap wetback workers (who have no rights) to work in the fields.(2) Off and on for several years we employed a wetback , an illegal alien, who worked around the house and yard.(3) I think he's a goddamn wetback , so you may want to notify the Immigration Service.(4) Oh look at this wonderful American marrying this poor wetback just so she can stay in the country.(5) If so, the major Latin-American directors are not gilded wetbacks , fleeing home in search of the Yankee dollar.(6) Of course, cops didn't bother coming this far into the wilderness, unless they had a tip about drug dealers or wetbacks ; mostly they left Stallion's Gate alone.(7) At times the book is overly laden with abstractions, but having squatted in refugee camps and watched Los Federales hunt down wetbacks , I felt it to be well anchored.(8) At the first gig they played in Nashville, the crowd bayed: ‘Get those wetbacks off.’(9) At least in the north a few wetbacks are always to be found.(10) The illegal immigrants are known colloquially as mojados or wetbacks , illegals, and pollos - Spanish for ‘chickens,’ the prey of coyotes.
