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border, the term is interchangeable with mojado (wetback), which refers to a person who enters the United States illegally by crossing the Rio Grande in Texas.
Until only recently bracero was applied to any Mexican farmworker, and is often used interchangeably with words like “wetback” or “greaser.”
A translation of the word “wetback,” sometimes spelled moja’o, which literally simply means “wet.”
Descriptions of the wetback experience have been chronicled and narrated in corridos (ballads) and novels.
In Mexico, the term sometimes used is espaldas mojadas, a literal translation for the word wetback.
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