Mexicans in the U.S. sent record amounts of money back home despite COVID-19 pandemic
Posted: Jan 15, 2021 / 05:33 PM GMT-0600 / Updated: Jan 15, 2021 / 05:35 PM GMT-0600
A woman leaves a store offering services to send remittances to Mexico and Central America, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in San Diego.
Mexican workers have confounded economists by sending home huge amounts of money during the coronavirus pandemic. Experts had predicted that migrant workers would wire less money, known as remittances, as the American economy took a dive.
(AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
El PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Mexican workers abroad sent a record $36.9 billion to their homeland in the first 11 months of 2020, and some of that went to families in Tijuana, Juarez and other cities bordering the U.S.
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