[cloudmountain]

A 3.00 USD job will get him/her 58 mexican pesos per hour. With an average between 8000 to 12000 Mexican pesos for the average income in Mexico, a worker in the US would only need to make 611 dollars on the high end and a little over 400 USD on the low end to equal what they make in Mexico. So a 3.00 job working 40 a week would put them into that range of the average monthly salary in Mexico. Suddenly for an illegal foreign worker having the mindset of making between 400 and 600 US dollars is not all that bad.

Maybe that worker has to produce a lot more $$ because he is supporting more than himself. Maybe his family in Mexico is, er, large.

I don't believe that so many UNATTACHED males or females come here. Why would they? It's not HOME. And I don't think they have the starry-eyed mentality of the first immigrants. They are here for ONE reason: DINERO.

It all seems to depend on and goes back to the USA and China.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-economy-peso/mexico-peso-headed-for-choppy-waters-on-back-of-trade-uncertainty-idUSKBN1X12A3

[zaxtres]

You need to read the entirety of the posting, especially the last line where I state that an immigrant, legal or illegal, making DINERO equivalent to 400 to 600 USD in their currency (DINERO) is why they come here. 8000 to 12000 Mexican Pesos is what the individual worker makes in Mexico, family or no family. If an individual, legal or not legal, can come here and make 900 and up in USD a month they have surpassed the amount the average worker makes in Mexico. Of course it is about the DINERO. That’s a fools folly to think otherwise.