Yes, they are and they are stunned when you tell them how wealthy Mexico is. We all assumed that the entire country must be terribly poor to send their citizens here.
People don't realize. They are hard at work paying their escalating taxes --- they don't realize how decadent the lifestyle of the oligarchs and other elites of Mexico is. For some reason, because they're servant class is far outnumbering them now, they believe we're the easy quick solution to the problems that's creating them.