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Fifty-year-old Teresa Gomez moved to the United States as a young woman with one goal: to support her aging mother in Mexico. For decades, Gomez has sent her mother a third of every paycheck. She organizes merchandise and attends customers at a Barrio Logan grocery store. Her mother has heart problems, and uses the money to survive in the southern Mexican state of Jalisco. “I send her $ 400 every two weeks,” said Gomez, who has dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship. “I provide for my mother.” But that money – known as remittances – may soon be in jeopardy. President Donald Trump has threatened to target remittances as a way of forcing Mexico to pay for his planned border wall, which will cost anywhere between $ 5-25 billion. Gomez doesn’t think that would be fair. She’s a U.S. citizen as well as a Mexican one. “How are you going to punish so many citizens who come as workers, with good thoughts and acts in this country?” Gomez asked. Remittances to Mexico reached a record $ 27 billion last year,
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