Questo è interessante, soprattutto per i mesi futuri....
In 2006, a record-setting $26.1 billion in remittances -- up 20 percent from $18 billion in 2005 -- represented 2.7 percent of Mexico's gross domestic product and was the country's third-largest source of foreign exchange after oil revenues and industrial exports. However, a recent study conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank found that during the first half of 2007, remittances remained relatively flat, at $11.5 billion, compared to $11.4 billion during the same period in 2006; this does not even exceed a 1 percent increase.
A pretty hefty chunk of those remittances are from illegal immigrants, most of which are/had been employed by housing-related industries. They have been the first ones to face the economic impact of the crisis, and many have lost their jobs. You can see the effect on remittances and consumption, but it won't show up in the labor stats, of course.