Wetback
noun, Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.
1.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a Mexican laborer who enters the U.S. illegally, as by wading the Rio Grande.
noun
1.
(US, informal, offensive) a Mexican labourer who enters the US illegally
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