Mexican remittances on the rise
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Why are Mexicans working abroad sending more money back home? Last year total remittance payments for Mexico reached a record of nearly $27bn \\u2013 most of that came from Mexicans working in the United States. But it\\u2019s a sensitive time with President Trump determined to clamp down on illegal immigrants and build a wall along the US-Mexican border. Caroline Bayley asks how significant those payments are to relatives back home and the Mexican economy as a whole.
(Image: Mexican farmer and his wife. Copyright: BBC)
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