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Curry, "Hate Groups Grow as Racial Tipping Point Changes Demographics."
272 immigration from several other countries has continued
Jeffrey Pa.s.sel, D'Vera Cohn, and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Pew Research Center, "Net Migration from Mexico Falls to Zero-and Perhaps Less," May 3, 2012, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/23/net-migration-from-mexico-falls-to-zero-and-perhaps-less/.
273 Flows of Asian immigrants to the U.S. overtook Hispanics
"Asians Overtake Hispanics as Largest US Immigration Group," Telegraph, June 20, 2009.
274 "by around 2023 if current immigration trends continue"
William H. Frey, "A Demographic Tipping Point Among America's Three-Year-Olds," Brookings Inst.i.tution, February 7, 2011, http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2011/02/07-population-frey.
275 democratic principle of majority rule
"Arab Majority in 'Historic Palestine' After 2014: Survey," Agence France-Presse, December 30, 2010.
276 higher standards of living in developed countries
Report of the Secretary-General, "International Migration and Development."
277 results in less support for public school budgets
Tavernise, "Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S."
278 United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom
Report of the Secretary-General, "International Migration and Development."
279 totaled $351 billion in 2011 and is projected to reach $441 billion
Dipil Ratha, World Bank, "Outlook for Migration and Remittances 201214," February 9, 2012.
280 back home from the cities where they work
Overseas Development Inst.i.tute, "Internal Migration, Poverty and Development in Asia, October 2006," http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/29.pdf.
281 as much as 60 percent of their income
Ibid.
282 majority of money flowing into those three states
Ibid.
283 persecution to new communities within their own country
United Nations Refugee Agency, "UNHCR: Global Trends," 2010.
284 "it's becoming more and more difficult to find solutions for them"
"UN Report Predicts Increase in World's Displaced," a.s.sociated Press, June 1, 2012.
285 meaning they have no place to go home to
United Nations, Millennium Development Goals Report 2011.
286 more refugees moved to cities than to refugee camps
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), "2009 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons," June 15, 2010, http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4caee6552.html.
287 80 percent of refugees live in poor regions of the world
Antoine Pecoud and Paul de Guchteneire, UNESCO, "International Migration, Border Controls and Human Rights: a.s.sessing the Relevance of a Right to Mobility," Journal of Borderlands Studies 21, no. 1 (Spring 2006).
288 Myanmar, Colombia, and Sudan
