Operation Wetback 1954, was last serious attempt to control illegal immigration.
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Even ‘dream’ of using a name like that today and you will be in heap big pile of dung.
There is an ad for Subway today (for Italian Subs) with the Italian ‘stoop’ family, lot of yelling and treating the son(?) for buying the sandwich like he had just cured cancer.
Even has the mother (leaning out window) and calling to her husband(??) to see what ‘good’ the kid had done.
I personally have no problem with the ad, nor the dumb depictions of Irish on and around 17 Mar BUT I just wonder what the reaction would be if the ‘stoop family’ were Black and Popeyes Chicken were the product.
ALSO
Washington Nationals have ended up with Adam Eaton and the announcers are pushing the name ‘Mighty Mouse’ on him, encouraging fans to wear mouse ears etc...
I only bring this up as I remember Howard Cosells career taking a BIG DIP, for referring to a Redskin end as ‘look at that monkey go’ — at the time the Redskins had 3 very fast and very small ends - called the ‘Smurfs’....Oh yes, the 3 were Black.....
I used it this week on a blowhard Texan. Old joke.
A Texan is a wetback that started to Oklahoma and ran out of money.