Many of the Vietnamese boat people eventually found homes in the United States.
Her Malaysia deal involved swapping 800 boat people from Australia with 4, 000 people who had already been approved as refugees in Malaysia.
The 7, 120 boat people who landed in the first seven months of this year were more than for each of the previous two years.
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The uninvited human tide is swelling faster than at any time since boat people started landing in Australia in the 1970s after the Vietnam war.
With shots of boat people and illegals flocking into the U.S., the announcer asks voters to tell Clinton to stop giving benefits to illegal aliens.
The Middle East boat people have been enticed by a fresh lot of racketeers who seem to be based in the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Flores.
Christmas Island's 1, 400 residents are outnumbered by more than 2, 700 asylum-seekers housed in a centre for boat people who have been intercepted on their way to Australia.
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On August 7th, just as the first boat people were about to be sent to Malaysia, the High Court, Australia's final appeal court, issued a temporary injunction against the deal.
After Labor won power in 2007 it closed the camps and processed boat people on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, as well as on the mainland.
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Malaysia and Singapore have been worried not so much by the fear of economic contagion as by the prospect of tens of thousands of Indonesian boat people arriving on their shores.
Red Boat Fish Sauce is a labor of love from Cuong Pham, who originally left his home country as one of the Vietnamese Boat People before landing in the US and working for Apple.
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In January, when his government was under pressure over the army's callous treatment of ethnic-Rohingya boat people, originally from Myanmar, Abhisit Vejjajiva, the prime minister, told journalists that the illegal-immigrant problem had to be solved.
The real objection is that the new approach prevents migrants from applying for asylum even if they are entitled to humanitarian protection (typically around a third of Mediterranean boat people qualify, according to the Italian government).
For those who believe that the national debate over boat people should become a lot less shrill and a lot more compassionate, perhaps the biggest drawback of the programme was that it was preaching to the converted.
Child prostitution in Bangkok brothels, rape and murder of Vietnamese boat people on the high seas, drug trafficking by cabinet ministers and corruption on a colossal scale--all come from the dark side of Thailand's complex society, where gentle Buddhism cohabits with some fearsome evil spirits.
In neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia, there are fears of an exodus of Indonesians leaving as boat-people, or even turning to piracy in desperation.
Some local boat owners questioned the number of people on the boat.
The agency reported that the vessel was a fishing boat with four people onboard.
Although I cannot provide any great studies to prove this, my experience is that a boat load of people know they are going to die a significant period of time before they actually die.
"The federal government is a slow-moving boat and the people that initiate the process for getting proposals out to vendors - well, put it this way - they could use a really good training video!"
All 181 people on the larger floe near the capital city of Riga were removed by boat, and 42 people were rescued by helicopter from the smaller floe off the coast of Jurmala, a nearby seaside resort town.
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The last time I felt bad about something was after Katrina, when Sean Penn went down there and was rowing around in a boat trying to save people.
Pittsburgh Water Limo now ferries only 39 people a boat, down from 49, to Pittsburgh Steelers games and other events from downtown, said Mark Schiller, vice president of operations.
The boat crash killed 39 people, including several children.
Despite a desperate late-night rescue effort, 39 people aboard that boat died, including eight children.
Corradin said the people from the boat began to swim back to the dock.
There must be a thousand people on the boat and they've stopped ten of them.
Hundreds of people also take boat rides every day into the middle of the waters, where the two rivers meet.
Some 180 people travelled by boat to the district earlier this month.
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