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A translation of the word “wetback,” sometimes spelled moja’o, which literally simply means “wet.”
It was a political film that incorporated all of the standard characters that would appear in countless other films and novels of the Chicano experience: the wetback, the pocho (half Mexican), the coyote (smuggler) who smuggles people into the United States, and the grower Mister Sterling.
Alambrista is not as common an expression as wetback, but it is used frequently by the media.
Wetback
Until only recently bracero was applied to any Mexican farmworker, and is often used interchangeably with words like “wetback” or “greaser.”
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