Time to do the math ...
$6.75 (no taxes taken out) * 10 hours per day ($67.50) * 6 days per week ($405) * 4 weeks/month = $1620 or so per month.
His family gets 2/3rds or about $1000 per month, which in Mexico is a FORTUNE.
Assuming he worked 6 months so far, he has earned 6 * 1620 = $9720 with virtually no expenses other than food. That is a pretty good return on $2000 in smuggler expenses. He has already sent back as least $6,000 to his family.
John and Ken had Vicente Fox's first campaign manager on one day.
Among other things he said was that a close friend of Fox has a monopoly on communications.
On money wired to Mexico, the "Friend of Fox" takes FORTY PER CENT.
SO- the family gets $600.