Sentence examples for flood of migrants from inspiring English sources

A flood of migrants could swamp the sluggish Western European job markets.

The flood of migrants will continue; by 2030 Chinese cities will contain more than 1 billion people.

Mexico wants to talk to the United States about the flood of migrants illegally crossing the Rio Grande.

The prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said the "flood" of migrants "threatens our existence as a Jewish and democratic state".

But the flood of migrants has severely stretched health and education services in the poor state of Roraima.

Four years later Mao Zedong introduced the hukou system in order to prevent a flood of migrants pouring into the cities.

As the United Nations' Peter Sutherland put it on Thursday morning: "Anybody who thinks that by erecting borders and fences in some way a particular state can be protected from alleged 'floods' – which are anything but floods of migrants – is living in cloud cuckoo land".

Europe is receiving floods of migrants, but it is expelling many too.

For another, China's rapid urbanization continues to attract floods of migrant workers from poorer, rural areas, as well as foreign investors, to cities like Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai, creating a seemingly insatiable appetite for affordable housing and prime commercial space.

Austrians and Germans, in particular, fear a flood of new migrants snapping up jobs.

Many Dominicans fear a flood of illegal migrants unless reconstruction is swift and effective.