greencarders

English

Noun

greencarders

1. plural of greencarder
   • 1968, Civil Rights Digest - Volume 1, Issue 2, page 40:

     Of major importance in evaluating the impact of the greencarder is that apart from the loss of jobs to resident workers and the suppression of wages, the situation forces upwards of 75 percent of the Mexican American population out of the area to find work.

   • 1968, El Malcriado: Voice of the Farm Worker:

     The growers of California and the Southwest say they need the greencarder to do the stoopwork, but they refuse to pay the wages and grant the conditions which would allow us to work in dignity.

   • 1992, Mel Krantzler, Patricia B. Krantzler, The seven marriages of your marriage:

     Luckily, I'm not a greencarder, or I could be a "senior alien."