Don't know where I found this, but here's one take
An estimated 11 million Mexican citizens are in the United States, about half of them illegally. Last year, Mexican migrants sent home more than $20 billion in remittances, the country's second leading source of foreign income after oil. In the first eight months of 2006, remittances rose by nearly 20 percent over the same period last year, according to figures released by the Mexican Central Bank on Mond
If I had to judge by the line at our local HEB on payday, a whole lot of money flows south.
A lot of it. I teach illegals ESL. I have several couples who left their children in Nicaragua and came here to work. One woman and her husband were here for 4 years and just got their son up here. I can guarantee you that they work to get money back to their families. They live in large groups in trailers to save money. I like these people a lot and admire them. But I don't see how they are helping the economy as much as this article says.