wetback in a sentence

Examples

1. To cross over, to be a wetback, is . . . a baptism into a new life.
2. "Now'wetback, greasy spic,'that's offensive, " he told Novas.
3. In the crude, cruel idiom of the day, Miguel and Ana Loya were " wetbacks ."
4. Vern describes himself as a wetback from Kentucky who swam the Ohio River forty years ago and never went back.
5. The continuation of illegal immigration despite the efforts of Operation Wetback was largely responsible for the failure of the program.
6. In areas where electricity was not yet available, a chip heater on wetback and a coal range were installed.
7. Earlier this year, police confiscated a roster for Wetback Power, the state's largest Hispanic gang in Scottsdale.
8. At first, he was taunted in his East Harlem neighborhood as a " mojado, " a wetback.
9. *American they say, others label all of us cuban descendants or immigrants with cruel petnames like rafters or wetbacks.
10. It is estimated that before Operation Wetback got under way, more than a million workers had crossed the Rio Grande illegally.