"To this day, decades after becoming a U.S. citizen, my dad proudly calls himself a mojado — a wetback. But when the Mexicans started coming from southern states with larger Indigenous populations, my relatives saw them as shiftless flojos — lazy people — who weren’t like our Mexicans."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-09/latinos-california-illegal-immigration
#CaliforniaPolitics
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