[sgtbono2002]

Not only dont a lot of illegals pay taxes, they also send a great deal of American cash below the border to be spent out of the country instead of here in our economy.

That cant be a great help either.

[MarkL]

I seem to recall reading that the #3 source of income for Mexico is money sent from the US to families back there.

Just how much of that money is earned illegally?

Since there are state and federal laws that require the government to confiscate any illegally earned money, and since the SCOTUS deemed that property siezed in this way doesn't have to be returned until the person it was seized from can prove it was earned legitimately, it seems to me that any money sent via wire services from the US to Mexico be intercepted and held by the government, until the person sending it can prove it was earned legally.

And if it wasn't earned legally, then sanctions on the employer must be extremely painful.

Mark