Immigrants who wired their wages home are now asking their families to send them money

FAIRVIEW, N.J. — For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala. Recently, he stepped up to the money transfer window for a different purpose — to ask that his family send some of his savings back to him.

Immigrants who once wired money from home are asking for remittances to stay afloat in the US

FAIRVIEW, N.J. — Money transfer agencies have been noticing for months a decline in the wages immigrants are sending back to their home countries.