Census.gov
“Data from the CPS Migration Supplement suggest that households sent an estimated $11.7 billion to relatives and friends outside the United States during the 12 months before the survey.”
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Western Union doesn’t classify Mexico as a “foreign country” for purposes of sending money.
A massive money laundering. - no taxes / cash kickbacks for the store or other middlemen - takes place in all of these illegal migrant communities.
They can get bank accounts now with NO social security numbers but mostly it’s a cash economy.
When I moved from N Calif to N Nevada 19 years ago-—I changed banks, of course. From a Calif local state bank to the same structure here in Nevada.
PATRIOT ACT was fresh & strict.
I had to produce:
PRIOR BANK STATEMENTS
DRIVER’S LICENSE
3 or 4 OTHER KINDS OF IDENTIFICATION—
I used my vehicle registrations/ my vehicle insurance cards/ Ownership of my registered Arabian horses/My social Security card & I do NOT remember what all else.
WITHIN 3 years of being here-—Bank of America & Wells Fargo were advertising heavily on TV that ILLEGALS COULD OPEN BANK ACCOUNTS WITH THEM-—NO ID.
I AM STILL PISSED OFF OVER THAT.