Remittances sent home by Mexicans in the United States are the second-largest source of legal foreign revenue in the country. Last year, according to the Bank of Mexico, migrants sent home $25 billion. But the remittances have been falling steadily since the end of 2007, when construction, manufacturing and service industries began to sputter. These sectors employ a disproportionate percent of the almost 12 million Mexicans living in the United States, most of them illegally.
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