03 Jul 09 16:40, Roger Nelson wrote to Mimi Gallandt:


 MG>> Funny how illegal aliens got the nickname "wet back".
Apparently it
 MG>> has escaped you two's memory that it was those Mexicans swimming the
 MG>> Rio Grande (last located between Mexico and *TEXAS*) to get into the
 MG>> US.

 RN> Where do you think mojado came from?  Has the Rio Grande moved?

Not to mention that the New York Times was the first to use 'wetback' in
an article about illegals in 1920...and later, the US Government used the
name Operation Wetback as a code name for a round up of illegals, some
time in the 40s.

                R\%/itt

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