Hell, all three. 
Acronyms:
Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIR
Center for Immigration Studies CIS
Vdare / Center for American Unity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vdare
The first is outside the OP and has been asked and answered seveal times here, and I linked to it twice int he last few months
How much cash is sent back:
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14170542.htm
"*Money sent back to Mexico from those working in the United States reached a record high last year, $20 billion, making remittances from migrants Mexico’s second largest source of income, surpassed only by oil exports. * "
*In five Mexican states, the money migrants send home exceeds locally generated income, one study found.
Last year, Mexico received a record $20 billion in remittances from migrant workers. That is equal to Mexico’s 2004 income from oil exports and dwarfing tourism revenue.
Arriving in small monthly transfers of $100 and $200, remittances have formed a vast river of “migra-dollars” that now exceeds lending by multilateral development agencies and foreign direct investment combined, according to the Inter-American Development Bank.
The money Mexican migrants send home almost equals the U.S. foreign aid budget for the entire world, said Arturo Valenzuela, director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University and former head of Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration.
“Where are we going to come up with $20 billion?” to ensure stability in Mexico, Valenzuela asked at a recent conference. “Has anybody in the raging immigration debate over the last few weeks thought, could it be good for the fundamental interests of the United States … to serve as something of a safety valve for those that can’t be employed in Mexico?” "*
Cost of Deportation (note, estimates vary widely):
http://karlmaher.blogspot.com/2005/07/deporting-illegals.html
*"Steve Verdon at Outside the Beltway links to a document estimating the cost of deporting the illegal-immigrant community. It comes out to $141 billion over five years to export 8 million people back to wherever they came from.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, and it’s actually cheaper than I’d have thought. But I wonder what would happen in Mexico if its unemployed-male population grew by 1.5 million people a year.
This BLS document adjusts Mexico’s employment statistics to U.S. concepts (1998 data, latest I could conveniently locate). It says Mexico had a labor force of 18 million that year, and reported unemployment of about 600,000 people.
So if we were to shell out for the deportation program, we’d basically quadruple Mexico’s unemployment rate. * " = $28.5 Bil/year
http://www.alipac.us/article918.html
*The Economics of Immigration Enforcement: Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Mass Deportation, written by statistical expert Edwin Rubenstein, presents startling data and analysis of the massive costs of illegal immigration to Americans and the enormous benefits that would result from deporting illegals.
The NPI paper is a direct response to a well publicized July 2005 study by The Center for American Progress, a leftwing think tank. The paper claims that the price of deporting illegal aliens would be prohibitive, costing the government up to $230 billion over five years.
But the Centerpaper basically ignores the total cost to American taxpayers of having anywhere from 8.5 to 20 million illegals in the U.S. who demand and receive benefits such as education, medical care, welfare and housing subsidies. NPIA study finds that illegals receive more than $26 billion per year in federal services and additional billions from state and local governments. "*= $46Bil !
*"The study, “Deporting the Undocumented: A Cost Assessment,” scheduled for release today by the Center for American Progress, is billed by its authors as the first-ever estimate of costs associated with arresting, detaining, prosecuting and removing immigrants who have entered the United States illegally or overstayed their visas. The total cost would be $206 billion to $230 billion over five years, depending * *on how many of the immigrants leave voluntarily, according to the study…The study estimates that it would cost about $28 billion per year to apprehend illegal immigrants, $6 billion a year to detain them, $500 million for extra beds, $4 billion to secure borders, $2 million to legally process them and 1.6 billion to bus or fly them home.* 28Bil+
The 20 Billion figure came from FAIR. Why you chose to exclude it, when all the rest are just as WAG estimates and just as biased, I don’t know. It’s a low end estimate true, but it seems in the ballpark. The cost of the War on Drugs is about 40Bil$/year.
Oh well, Americans are known for not grasping irony. Entry level jobs for recent graduates aren’t in abundance. She took the job because she hadn’t recieved a better offer. She wasn’t offered a job at the locally owned companies. No no one put a gun to her head and that isn’t the point. The point is that all through these threads about Mexico, people here say the Mexican government should do this or that to create better jobs at home. They make lots of demands but they offer no solution. I’m curious whether they think they might have something other than an opinion on how this should be accomplished. I won’t hold my breath.
If the government here were to regulate the wages that foreign companies pay, something that would cause an uproar in your country, then they would be labeled anti-capitalist or some such nonsense.
And I’m not really looking for any answers to Mexico’s problems on this board. It is continuosly demonstrated that no one around here has any real knowledge of Mexico.
No snarkiness indended, but isn’t that fact that that company was there to offer her that job a good thing? Without it she would have taken a worse job, or no job, right?And if her company has success by hiring people like your daughter, more foreign companies will look to open offices there, correct? And the more companies that open offices there, the more power people like your daughter will have. Having more companies there will increase demand for workers, which transfers power to their hands. Assuming, of course, the corrupt officials don’t find a way to interfere with the laws of economics.
My my, aren’t we smug? Perhaps if your daughter had no better offers she should be happy with the one that she got and accepted. It sounds like those 150% higher paying jobs really aren’t in abundance and you used them to try and make a point? As I said, here in America, just because you graduated college does not mean you will get a job making a small fortune. You get in line with everyone else who has the same degree and lack of experience. Like you said though, I obviously don’t know anything about Mexico so perhaps employers line the streets outside of colleges looking for graduates to throw money at?
I would guess that if your government started regulating wages paid by foreign companies, the only people you would hear complaining up here are those paying the wages. Frankly, I would like to see the factories move back to the US away from Mexico and I think that I am not alone. I’d like to buy a new Dodge that was Hecho in Estados Unidos rather than Hecho en Mexico.
And yes, our knowledge of Mexico is about on par as our knowledge of Canada. See the ongoing thread about that if you would like.
And this demonstration seems to continue in your posts. Rather than carping, tell us what to YOU think would happen if all the Illegal Immigrants were sent back to Mexico to stay? AND, what do YOU think Mexico should do to have their own people rather stay in Mexico to work? (Which woudl likely include more and better jobs).
Unregistered Bull- there’s your cites. Now, let’s hear your answers on the OP’s question.