2006-08-28 14:22:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Correction. Today, a majority of illegals enter west of the Rio Grande and walk across the desert. Look at a map. Even public school students should have access to a US map. The Rio Grande comes from further north in the US, and turns east along the border towards Brownsville, Texas. West of it the border is rocks and sand and bugs and horned toads and rattlesnakes.
Still the answers on the derivation of w e t b a c k are correct. (The Yahoo censors won't let that word be displayed, weird.) And, some do still cross the Rio Grande. In Mexico, they call them mojados, which is wets.
I live when I am there in McAllen, Texas ten or fifteen miles from the border. When we come north, we stop at the Brooks County Rest Stop, a couple miles north of the Immigration inspection station, maybe 60 miles from the border.
My wife gets frustrated, because at the south end of the rest stop, in the walking trail through the bushes, is a waste barrel. After I hit the restroom, I have to run down and look in the barrel to see what goodies are there.
They put it way down there because the illegals pitch their wet clothes there in the bushes, and with the waste barrel they put them in there instead of tossing them on the ground. There are some good clothes in there, and I'd like to take them and run them through the washer and find someone to use them. But, my wife thinks they are contaminated with anthrax or smallpox.
Once, there was a really nice backpack, soaking wet. My best friend wanted to take it, but I told him if it had drugs in it before, the Border Patrol dogs might point at it, and we'd be hassled.
2006-08-28 14:39:57 · answer #1 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a snide reference to the fact that so many Mexicans illegally enter the United States by crossing the Rio Grande...
2006-08-28 21:25:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its an offensive term to describe a immigrant who crossed the Rio Grande over to the U.S.
Only the lowest class people use that kind of language.
2006-08-28 21:26:40 · answer #3 · answered by wassup_people 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it is a term that is used by Mexicans as well as non Mexicans.It is a term to describe how many enter into the U.S. And that is to cross the Rio Grande river,hence the term,"wet back".
2006-08-28 21:28:11 · answer #4 · answered by Daddy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a term used for an illegal immigrant from Mexico, because the only way to sneak across the border is to wade or swim across the Rio Grand River.
2006-08-28 21:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
In the earlier days of illegal immigration, mexicans would swim the rio grande river to enter the US, consequently, they would be wet when they came ashore..
therefore, wetbacks..
2006-08-28 21:26:21 · answer #6 · answered by chuckufarley2a 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it is a very derogatory term to refer to those illegal Mexican immirants who would "swim" to get into this country - usually by the rio grande
2006-08-28 21:27:07 · answer #7 · answered by feisty_wun 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A ******* IS A MEXICAN WITH SLICKED BACK HAIR.
hence a *******. like the fifty's greasers.BEANERS Because they eat alot of beans. CHOLO'S ARE THE LOWRIDERS IN GANGS THAT THINK THEY ARE ALL THAT. too cool for anyone.
the w tbacks are also the illegal mexicans.
2006-08-28 21:29:27 · answer #8 · answered by baddog 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
refers to someone swiming the rio grande river to enter the USA
2006-08-28 21:26:07 · answer #9 · answered by Bear Naked 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
americans use that frase to describe a mexican. wet back means they swam across.
2006-08-28 21:28:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋