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...rich world to the poor one. "Migration is going up," says Ratha. "We had better not wish it away, because it's very much there to stay." On three continents, migrants and their families described how the transfers worked. Nine years ago, Cornelio Zamora left his home in Zacapoaxtla, Mexico, paying a smuggler $2,500 to take him across the Rio Grande into the U.S. He had been unable to support his wife and four children on the $7 a day he earned as a bus driver. Working as a house painter in San Jose, California, Zamora, 48, now sends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Follow The Money | 11/26/2005 | See Source »

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