[mass55th]

How hard would it be for them to have someone who's a legal alien or a citizen wire it for them? It just seems that there would be so many ways they could get around this, and it would be very hard to enforce. PayPal allows individuals to register Mexican bank accounts, and the U.S. Postal Service offers International Postal Money Orders (for up to $700) which can be sent to Mexico. If one avenue of sending money back home is eliminated or reduced, they'll just find another way to get it there.

[MineralMan]

"How hard would it be for them to have someone who's a legal alien or a citizen wire it for them? It just seems that there would be so many ways they could get around this, and it would be very hard to enforce. PayPal allows individuals to register Mexican bank accounts, and the U.S. Postal Service offers International Postal Money Orders (for up to $700) which can be sent to Mexico. If one avenue of sending money back home is eliminated or reduced, they'll just find another way to get it there."

The most common wire service for transferring funds is Western Union. Every supermarket and drug store here offers the service. You go up, fill out a form, hand over cash and the clerk sends the funds via Western Union. On the other end, the person shows up at a Western Union office with the transaction number and some form of ID and gets the money.

That's the wire service most used.

At the USPS, funds sent to Mexico require no identification whatever of the sender. If you have the cash, you get the Giro.