{"id":2590,"date":"2009-10-30T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2009-10-30T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T17:51:09","slug":"remittances-plunge-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/remittances-plunge-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Remittances plunge in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Remittances plunge in Mexico: central bank  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-10\/29\/content_12353387.htm\">www.chinaview.cn<\/a><\/em>  2009-10-29 08:55:57      <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) &#8212; Money sent home by Mexican workers overseas was 17.5 percent lower in September from a year earlier and 13.4 percent lower in the year to end September from the previous one, the Bank of Mexico said Wednesday in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>    September&#8217;s remittances were 1.74 billion dollars and year-to-end-September transfers were 16.43 billion, the statement said. <\/p>\n<p>    Remittances have suffered in Mexico due to a U.S. recession that began in December 2007 but now appears to be coming to an end. Around 10 percent of all Mexico&#8217;s 100 million citizens live in the United States, representing around a third of the States&#8217; migrant population. <\/p>\n<p>    U.S. authorities have also been enforcing existing immigration legislation more strictly, including raids on businesses that employ large numbers of illegal workers, a move that strikes Mexicans in greater proportion than other groups. <\/p>\n<p>    U.S. statistics show that as many as 85 percent of Mexicans living in the United States entered the country illegally, although many of them have since legalized their status\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remittances plunge in Mexico: central bank www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-29 08:55:57 MEXICO CITY, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) &#8212; Money sent home by Mexican workers overseas was 17.5 percent lower in September from a year earlier and 13.4 percent lower in the year to end September from the previous one, the Bank of Mexico said Wednesday in a statement. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}