If they are all just hard working families, why do they drive emergency rooms into bankrupcy? Wouldn’t that $100b they send home help bail out the hospitals?
Good point about the remittances. Remittances by migrant workers in the US to Latin America/Caribbean were estimated at around $45 billion for 2005, probably higher now.
These remittances should be deducted from the model, more than wiping out even the slight $30 billion net GDP gain.