Immigration

Record $120 billion sent home to 3 top nations flooding US with illegal immigrants

By Paul Bedard
Published March 20, 2019 12:50pm ET
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Record $120 billion sent home to 3 top nations flooding US with illegal immigrants
Honduras migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, walk on a road in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 18,2019. Hundreds of Central American migrants are walking and hitchhiking through the region as part of a new caravan of migrants hoping to reach the United States. | (Marco Ugarte/AP)

Immigrants from the three Central American nation’s sourcing many illegal border crossers sent a record amount of money home last year, bringing the total this decade to $120 billion.

Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador all said that natives in the United States sent over $17 billion home last year alone.

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Border Customs and Border Protection El Salvador Guatemala Honduras United Nations