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Virus means Mexican emigrants send fewer dollars to hometown

by Associated Press
| July 23, 2020 7:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — In the weeks he spent flat on his back in his Brooklyn bunk, wracked with pain and struggling to breathe, Axayacatl Figueroa could think of nothing but the small town and the family he had left behind in Mexico.

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