Unemployment has hit immigrant communities in the United States so hard that a startling new phenomenon has been detected: Instead of receiving remittances from relatives in the richest country on earth, some down-and-out Mexican families are scraping together what they can to support their unemployed loved ones in the United States.
Hard Us Times Mean Mexicans Sending Money North
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Fri, 12/04/2009 - 9:21am
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