Fox is getting more than that these days. It was double that amount last year.
Bank of Mexico Reports Remittances Sent Home by Mexicans Living Abroad Rise to $20B in 2005
The Bank of Mexico reported remittances sent home by Mexicans living abroad rose to $20 billion in 2005, a 17% increase over the year before. Remittances have been climbing steadily for years, surpassing the amount the country receives from tourism. Approximately 11 million Mexican natives reside abroad, with 98% of that number residing in the United States.
Foreign income in 2005:
Source: www.moneysense.ca/news/company_news/shownews.jsp?content=D8FFTN2GG_ap
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Oh, boy, $20 billions. How does Bush get Fox to 'persuade' his citizens to come back home? Or, perversely, how do the American people get control of their borders, their country, their birthright, culture, society, common language? V.D. Hanson, isn't anyone in the White House listening to you?
Mexico has become the fifty-first state, like it or not, and it's worse than Louisiana after Katrina. Or the US is miniMexico. You decide. Nothing like being handed a fait d'accompli. That's what really irritates. Why weren't we accorded the honesty of a national debate on immigration policy and subsequent ramifications in the hemisphere. Mass migration, good-bye sovereignty, etc.. Someone on this thread aptly compared us to France allowing in all those Algerian Muslims for cheap labor. But they're only dealing with, what, five or ten million Muslims? We're coping with 24 million Hispanic illegals.
There went my oatmeal!