Rafael Gutiérrez, a 53-year-old farmworker, said the increase would let him treat his family to weekend dinners out and a short vacation to Disneyland from his home in Fresno County.
Investigators said that McDermott faked his own disappearance and is living in Mexico with his new girlfriend.
The children listed in the case range in age from 1 to 17 and came from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
U.S. authorities on Wednesday seized a cross-border tunnel that ran the length of four football fields from a restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico, to a newly built house in Calexico, California.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to become a candidate.
In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, José Refugio Rodríguez Núñez, lawyer of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, said that he will ask U.S. authorities to be kept at a middle-security prison.
The former boxer will have to attend a hearing on March 28.
Jorge Arce was released on bail in the early hours of Tuesday after paying US$ 25,000.
La Iglesia anunció hoy el lanzamiento de una campaña para promover que más de dos millones de inmigrantes en el estado tramiten su ciudadanía
The man had already touched her inappropriately once soon after she arrived at her mother's home in California from Mexico, she testified, and told her not to tell or he would call immigration authorities.