Originally Posted by Bucco

I am still trying to get more facts and validation but I have run into an interesting fact. Did you know that the 3rd largest revenue stream for the country of Mexico is money sent back to the country from illegals immigrants in this country sending back their earnings ?

The revenue streams for Mexico are....exports, oil sales and then money sent back from illegal immigrants in the USA. Now, that means the earn it here, do not spend it here, or at least not as much as we have been lead to believe and send it back to their economy. I wonder if this includes the BILLIONS bilked from the IRS on tax frauds that it seems we do not want to stop.

I am not quite sure of the date of the report that I will link....a few years ago I would imagine since...but the report covers the cost of illegal immigration to this country and that is not something we hear much about. I can only recall hearing the benefits to our country from those who seek to make those folks BREAKING OUR LAW into some kind of heros...

"$60 billion dollars are earned by illegal aliens in the U.S. each year. One of Mexico's largest revenue streams (after exports and oil sales) consists of money sent home by legal immigrants and illegal aliens working in the U.S. Economists say this will help Mexico reduce its $17.8 billion defecit and may bolster the peso. $10 billion dollars (as of 2003) are sent back to Mexico annually, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, reported in an Associated Press article, up $800 million from the previous year. ($9 billion dollars were previously sent back annually, according to a September 25, 2002 NPR report). That figure equals what Mexico earns annually from tourism. This is a massive transfer of wealth from America - essentially from America's displaced working poor - to Mexico."

Economic costs of mass immigration (legal and illegal immigration) - CAIR - Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform