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Migrants sent half a trillion dollars home last year. These maps show where the money went

Mexican migrant worker Javier Gonzalez and his wife Guadalupe pick watermelons in Dome Valley near Yuma, Arizona June 18, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Scuteri (UNITED STATES) - RTX73VV

For a growing number of families, remittances is their main source of income Image: REUTERS/Rick Scuteri

Simon Torkington
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Map showing where migrants in the US send money home.
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