Alejandro Tejada, manager of Tenares Communications, a Western Union office in Passaic, N.J., holds up remittance checks, that were sent from foreign countries to immigrants in the United States. Money transfer agencies have been reporting for months a continuing decline in the amount of money immigrants in the U.S. send to relatives back home.
Immigrants in US Are Asking for Money From Home
By SAMANTHA HENRY,
Associated Press Writer
Tue Jun 30, 2009
FAIRVIEW, N.J. – For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala. Recently, he stepped up to the money transfer window for a different purpose — to ask that his family send some of his savings back to him.
"I hadn't worked for five months, and I was two months behind on rent, so I had them send $1,500," the 21-year-old Chamale said in Spanish. "My mother said, `That's a lot of money!'"
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