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Like other immigrant groups, many illegals send money to their families remaining in the old country. In Mexico this funding is the second largest source of [[foreign income]], after [[crude oil]] sales. It represents as much as 2.5 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product <ref>[http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20724214~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html] World Bank Report on Migration and Welfare</ref>
Like other immigrant groups, many illegals send money to their families remaining in the old country. In Mexico this funding is the second largest source of [[foreign income]], after [[crude oil]] sales. It represents as much as 2.5 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product <ref>[http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:20724214~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html] World Bank Report on Migration and Welfare</ref>
====Canada and Canadians====
Currently estimates show around 70,000 undocumented Canadian workers work in the U.S. They do not contribute to the U.S. economy in any way shape or form. Canadian citizens are not required to obtain Visas Unlike Mexican citizens, instead they have Visa waivers which last for six months. They take jobs from U.S. citizens primarily because they would be paid significantly less for the same jobs in Canada. (mainly in the construction industry.) The border with Canada is significantly easier to cross, due to several factors such as less Border Patrol personnel and a significantly greater border a 5,525 mile border with Canada compared (with 1,538 miles being added from [[Alaska]] 's border) to the 1,951 mile long border with [[Mexico]]. Along the border with [[Canada]] we have around 1,000 Border Patrol agents to cover the entire border, whilst on our border in [[Mexico]] we have around 11,000 agents.
==Amnesty==
==Amnesty==
* Claudia Sadowski-Smith. "Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral: Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882–2007," ''American Quarterly,'' Volume 60, Number 3, September 2008, pp. 779-804 [http://muse.uq.edu.au/login?uri=/journals/american_quarterly/v060/60.3.sadowski-smith.html in Project Muse]
* Claudia Sadowski-Smith. "Unskilled Labor Migration and the Illegality Spiral: Chinese, European, and Mexican Indocumentados in the United States, 1882–2007," ''American Quarterly,'' Volume 60, Number 3, September 2008, pp. 779-804 [http://muse.uq.edu.au/login?uri=/journals/american_quarterly/v060/60.3.sadowski-smith.html in Project Muse]
* Aristide R. Zolberg, ''A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America'' (2006)
* Aristide R. Zolberg, ''A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America'' (2006)
* TRAC REPORTS "''Border Patrol Expands But Growth Rate After 9/11 Much Less Than Before Division Between North/South Border Little Changed''" April 4, 2006 [http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/143/]
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