This repatriation of funds means that illegal aliens working and living here are usually living in poverty because a large % of their income is sent home. This makes the social costs of this type of labor much higher than merely the $126 billion they send out.
1. i think illegals should pay their fair share of health care. they've contributed to the destruction of american health care.
2. the u.s. government looks at the money going to mexico, for example, in a different manner than most on this forum. the u.s. government looks at the money going back to mexico as a form of social stability.
without the money going to mexico there would be a greater chance of a communist insurrection south of the border.
please read posts 66 and 70.
The illegals do not send out 126 billion. The mexicans which constitute 60% of the immigrant population send out only 17 billion total.
Read the entire article.
I will also reprise post 70.
"The remittance total is for all worldwide remittances. Remittances leaving the US is almost certainly less than $51 billion and does not include remittances coming into the US. Remittances also include transfers by legal immigrants.
I derive the $51 billion top number from the article which says 60% of those are mexican who send 17 billion to mexico. If all immigrants send the same as mexico, you get 17 billion plus 0.4 times 17 billion which yields 25 billion as a reasonably guess for outflow remittances.
Add in a fudge factor of 2 to get a top line maximum and you get $50 billion as a maximum outflow from the US.