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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