wetback

By the time the second wave hit, everything besides large in person gatherings wetback to normal.

But the deporting citizens part hasn’t happened for about 70 years since Operation Wetback which was nearly an identical playbook of today.

We had to live on-site at the 'wetback shack' (owner's words, and most of the employees were indeed illegals driven over from Acuna, Mexico).

First of all, while one might feel like its use is a 'bigtime no-no', the use of 'wetback' is still very popular in certain segments.

The expulsion of Germans from the Sudetenland killed tens of thousands, and the expulsions of native americans speak for themselves, as does the legacy of operation wetback.

Plus she was caught shoplifting -- typical wetback.

This isn't hypothetical; historical data from the 1950s Operation Wetback showed deportations led to agricultural collapses and economic drag, a pattern repeating now with early reports of job losses for both immigrants (millions displaced) and U.

And for a bonus, here's the ~30yr pattern of anti-immigration: - Immigration Act of 1924 - Operation Wetback of 1954 - Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 - Present day These things have _always_ happened here.

We Built a new house a few years ago and I really wanted a wetback, having had one in a previous house I was talked out of it by the fireplace guys and the plumbing guys.

Traditionally that combination would be fairly expensive and I wouldn't be surprised if the price has been increasing slowly as the plumbers who know how to do this retire and the wetback stoves become even more specialty equipment.

We got along for a century and change soft-handling immigration (even longer, if you don't consider the border to be "strictly enfroced" until Operation Wetback in the 1950s).

"You can't say anything anymore!" they'll exclaim, usually they want to right to continue to call Latinos "Wetback".

A group which is majority black men playing basketball will, under many circumstances, engage in racial ("cracker", "wetback" or "nigger" - whatever fits) and non-racial ("yo momma") smack talk.

They seem to relish that the lack of federal recognition combined with being a state program meant that the same type of cop who used to beat down minorities at "Wetback Wednesday" in Oakland could now bring that level of (lack of) customer service to a whole new set of vulnerable people.

Eisenhower launched Operation Wetback, so you can tell what he actually thought about this.