Manuel Orozco, member of the Financial Services Advisor board and director of the Migration, Remittances and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue: “Remittances to Mexico will increase 18 percent in 2022, almost as much as the region’s 14 percent projected growth. The case of Mexico is one about a continued migration uptrend that has shown signs of increase since 2018. By 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is expected to reach nearly 900,000 apprehensions of Mexicans, with the first six months of this year showing a 30 percent increase from 2021. Overall new migration, additional to legal authorized entries through H2 visas and family unification, will add 350,000 Mexicans, 70 percent of whom will send money, in 2022. In addition, the average amount sent among all Mexican migrants is at least 3 percent more than the year before. Together with new migrants, they are contributing more than $60 billion annually, or 4.75 percent of Mexico’s national income, in remittances. Finally, many Mexicans who would have returned to Mexico are staying…”