Operation Wetback was an immigration law enforcement initiative created by Joseph Swing, a retired United States Army lieutenant general and head of the...
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Wetback is a derogatory term used in the United States to refer to foreign nationals residing in the U.S., most commonly Mexicans. The word mostly targets...
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Look up wetback in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wetback may refer to: Wetback (slur), a derogatory term used primarily in the United States for Mexicans...
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Wetback Tank is a reservoir in Sierra County, New Mexico, in the United States. The name of the reservoir has been criticized in the media for containing...
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implemented Operation Wetback, a program created in response to public hysteria about immigration and immigrants from Mexico. Operation Wetback led to the deportation...
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The Wetback Hound is a 1957 American live-action short film produced Walt Disney Productions. It was produced and co-directed by Larry Lansburgh, and...
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Water heating (redirect from Wetback stove)
clogged, the thermal cutoff may act to shut down the heater. A wetback stove (NZ), wetback heater (NZ), or back boiler (UK), is a simple household secondary...
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Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary is a 2005 Canadian documentary film, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and written and directed by Arturo...
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Wetbacks is a 1956 American crime film directed by Hank McCune and starring Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates and Barton MacLane. An independent production, the...
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N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK, also known as "N*W*C", is a comedy stage production co-written by Rafael Agustin, Allan Axibal, Miles Gregley, Liesel Reinhart, and...
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Historical Association. "Operation Wetback". Retrieved May 24, 2011. Heer, Jeet (April 15, 2016). "Operation Wetback Revisited". The New Republic. Retrieved...
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Ron Arias (section The Wetback and Other Stories)
milestone in Mexican-American literature. About Arias' fiction anthology, The Wetback and Other Stories (2016), author Paul Theroux writes, "I felt reading these...
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(Oklahomans) Pindos (Americans) Pocho (Mexican Americans) Roto (Chileans) Spic Sudaca (Central and South Americans) Wetback Yank / Yankee (Americans)...
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Force" to carry out this plan, modeled after the 1950s-era "Operation Wetback" program during the Eisenhower administration that ended following a congressional...
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of 1928 Citrus Strike of 1936 La Matanza Mexican Repatriation Operation Wetback Plan de San Diego Porvenir Massacre Sleepy Lagoon trial Zoot Suit Riots...
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anniversary blog.) Herlihy-Mera, Jeffrey. "Mojado Reverso; or, A Reverse Wetback: On John Grady Cole’s Mexican Ancestry in All the Pretty Horses", Modern...
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by Fred Ward and Lone Star State of Mind by David Semel. Greaser Spic Wetback "Definition of beaner". www.dictionary.com. Retrieved 2021-12-19. Booth...
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"stab one in the back", but hopefully a friend "has got one's back". "Wetback" is a derogatory name in American English for immigrants who cross the...
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(Oklahomans) Pindos (Americans) Pocho (Mexican Americans) Roto (Chileans) Spic Sudaca (Central and South Americans) Wetback Yank / Yankee (Americans)...
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1954, Operation Wetback forced the return of thousands of illegal immigrants to Mexico. Between 1944 and 1954, "the decade of the wetback," the number of...
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The Joker Is Wild 1957 30th 1 1 The Three Faces of Eve 1957 30th 1 1 The Wetback Hound 1957 30th 1 1 Peyton Place 1957 30th 0 9 Witness for the Prosecution...
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(Oklahomans) Pindos (Americans) Pocho (Mexican Americans) Roto (Chileans) Spic Sudaca (Central and South Americans) Wetback Yank / Yankee (Americans)...
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(Oklahomans) Pindos (Americans) Pocho (Mexican Americans) Roto (Chileans) Spic Sudaca (Central and South Americans) Wetback Yank / Yankee (Americans)...
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(Oklahomans) Pindos (Americans) Pocho (Mexican Americans) Roto (Chileans) Spic Sudaca (Central and South Americans) Wetback Yank / Yankee (Americans)...
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who performed afterwards threatened Coy and his mother by calling him a "wetback", rapping that he would murder his mother and claiming that he would drag...
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illegally, the United States government implemented Operation Wetback in 1954. The racial term "Wetback" originated when Mexicans crossed the river Rio Grande...
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Red River Shore (1953) as himself Phantom Stallion (1954) as himself The Wetback Hound (1957, Short) as narrator (voice) The Hound That Thought He Was a...
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(Oklahomans) Pindos (Americans) Pocho (Mexican Americans) Roto (Chileans) Spic Sudaca (Central and South Americans) Wetback Yank / Yankee (Americans)...
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