or $25 each regardless of amount.
If you’re sending $100, that’s pretty steep on top of the Western Union fees.
$5 on top of the Western Union fees isn’t too bad.
The goal is to keep the fee small enough not to stop them from using the service, but large enough to pay off over time in light of the mass quantity of money being sent to Mexico.
Thinks of it as a cigarette tax. You tax too much and you kill the market, or create a black market.