Wetback (disambiguation)
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Wetback may refer to:
- "Wetback", Illegal Aliens in the United States, primarily applied to undocumented Mexican immigrants. Originally used in reference to a person crossing the U.S.-Mexico border by swimming across the Rio Grande.
- Wetback, a 1953 film dealing with immigration to the United States.
- Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary, a 2005 film about undocumented immigration to Canada.
- Operation Wetback, a project of the INS that deported about 1 million undocumented immigrants in 1954.
- The Wetback stove in Australia.