Hard US Times Mean Mexicans Sending Money North

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Courtesy Digg - Business & Finance  Fri, 12/04/2009 - 10:21

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.

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