Definitely not cool of him for using the w-word.
Too bad. So sad. People need to say what they mean and if other people don’t like it, they need to just get over it. “Hurt feelings” are ruining our country.
I’m little perplexed about the idea he is proposing. How is a rancher supposed to distinguish a “wetback” from a “non-wetback” who is just trespassing? Ask them for a green card before shooting them?
It might be pretty easy to guess who are the illegals, but what happens if you guess wrong?
“Definitely not cool of him for using the w-word.”
Soon to be banned in the NFL.
The term “wetback” was about as common as it gets here in Texas when talking migrants and illegals. Still hear it some but not as much as you use too.
Also heard “wets” or “wet Mexican.”
Wouldn’t want to offend any foreign law breakers.
IMO, the real threat is not the drywall worker
returning from a Mexican family visit - it's
misguided Islamists that are new Wetbacks..
The politican who uses his freedom of speech to
explain that - gets my $$.
W-word? Look, I understand the use of "f-word" to mask its offensive, vulgar actual term. But wetback has a rich history of common usage not only here in Texas but throughout America. It's descriptive in the same sense that "redneck" means a hard-working guy whose neck is red from toiling in the hot sun.
The enormously successful program that sent hundreds of thousands of criminals back to Mexico during the Eisenhower era was:
And it's revival for version 2.0 of that effective program is long, long overdue.
I used to think it wasn’t cool either...but as the term has changed to illegal alien>illegal immigrant>undocumented immigrant> and now the open borders supporters want us to just call them immigrants to muddy the water between illegals and legal immigrants so they can call those of us that want the laws enforced racist.
As long as the open borders supporters call me racist for not wanting smugglers and criminals traipsing by our house while waltzing in illegally I think I will reserve the right to call them anything I choose to.
Changing terms for things in order to “own” the issue is something liberals do, and we just go along with it like sheep.
I am happy to call them simply illegals- which I do but I totally understand people wanting to call them what they were known by in years past. Frustration, along with being fed up to our eyeballs with PC crap will do that to the best of us at times.
I don’t live in South Texas so can’t speak for those folks but where I live the only people I know personally that call them wets or wetbacks are Hispanic U.S. citizens that have either been here for generations or went through all the hoops to come here legally.