no shitte, and how many legal Americans would that have supported in jobs and other necessities?
Actually $24 an hour construction jobs are out there begging and being filled by a hard working hispanic workforce.
"how many legal Americans would that have supported in jobs and other necessities?"
And how much tax revenue does that account for?
Unlike the OPEC purchases (where we obtain physical goods for our money), the money that goes out benefits us very little that I can see.
I'm not an economist, but that doesn't stop me from spewing statistics like a steam-powered caliope....so, rough terms, $1B = 10,000 jobs, so guestimate might be close to 1.26M jobs.......
This is the very reason Mexico's Fox doesn't want to "fix" the illegal situation. Why try to fix Mexico's disaster of an economy when this kind of money flows in?