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Axayacatl Figueroa, who recovered after suffering from COVID-19, walks by a neighborhood food stand in Brooklyn, New York, Monday, July 6, 2020. Figueroa, who emigrated to New York in 2005 from Mexico's San Jerónimo Xayacatlán, leaving behind his wife and son, recovered after three weeks, but lost his full-time job in the kitchen of a Vietnamese restaurant and returned part-time. Before coronavirus, he sent up to $400 home every month. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Emigrants send dollars home to Mexico — and virus warnings

By Claudia Torrens and Maria Verza - Associated Press

Magnolia Ortega, center, stands outside a Western Union with her husband Arturo Morales and their daughter Marlene after wiring money to her family in Mexico, Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in Staten Island, New York. Ortega lost her job cleaning houses amid the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing the monthly amount she sends home. She's considering returning to her hometown of San Jeronimo Xayacatlan but says there's no work there either and that would mean one less family member sending back one less monthly check. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Virus means Mexican emigrants send fewer dollars to hometown

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press