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What is a wetbag in mexico?

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cuz i was watching tv and it said wetbag

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  1. I think what you heard was with a back

    It is a derogatory term for a person that has immigrated illegally to the United States. Commonly referring to Mexicans and people who may have crossed the border illegally, the term is based on the presumption that the person in question swam or waded across the Rio Grande to get into the United States, getting his or her back wet in the process. The English term was first used in 1920s and saw official use by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetbag. =D

    The equivalent Spanish term, espalda mojada, or usually simply mojado/a is sometimes used by legal immigrants and native-born Hispanic-Americans as an insult to illegal immigrants.


  2. I think you mean "*******" and it's a racial slur. I just noticed it stars it out.....

    W e t b a c k.

  3. I think you mean wetbaq (i would spell it with a ck but that is considered racist by yahoo), and they are called that because after they cross the border by swimming across the Rio Grande, a river, their backs are wet.

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