And before anyone beats you up for employing the pejorative term "wetback", I wish to remind them that the term "wetback" refers specifically to ILLEGAL ALIENS. Its origins lie in the many aliens who crossed the Rio Grande when breaking and entering the United States and would literally come out of the river dripping wet. The most successful Border Patrol operation in the history of the United States occurred in 1954 and it was called "Operation Wetback". That operation, by the way, deported or scared away over 1 million illegal aliens - a HUGE number for the few that were in the country back then. The term does not apply to hispanics/latinos/chicanos in general, as some would pretend, unless they are here illegally. It is not a racist term. Neither hispanic, latino, nor chicano are races anyway. So, you're going to get slammed, or your post may get pulled, but that's the fact of the matter about the term "wetback".
Why don't you say how many were actually deported?
It's like that perjorative for illegal italian americans .... WOP .. WithOut Papers. Of course I think that one later went on to include all italians.