“Three and more decades ago, actually”
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I don’t doubt it and I absolutely can believe it. I started paying attention two decades ago and it was 11 million then. People told me then that the number was an understatement. I looked into entry numbers a few weeks ago and located data that estimated 700,000 to 1.4M depending on the year and they validated with Info on remittances, etc, to show the “official” numbers had been deliberately understated. Cheap labor express, of course.
IF ICED were really serious about finding the illegals-—staking out every Western Union location would round up plenty of them.
Western Union has added Dollar Store to that roster. I am NOT happy with Dollar Store for doing this.
IMO-—You DO NOT need a Western Union location to transfer $$$$ out of the country if you DO NOT have an illegal problem.