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Alambrista is not as common an expression as wetback, but it is used frequently by the media.
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.
Like the term wetback, this is an expression many Chicanos can identify with since many have family members who have entered the United States through nonlegal means.
In Mexico, the term sometimes used is espaldas mojadas, a literal translation for the word wetback.
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