The first wave of Southeast Asian "boat people" arrives in San Francisco - September 20th, 1977 - a podcast by iHeartRadio & HowStuffWorks

On this day in 1977, the first group of the so-called “boat people” were admitted to the United States as refugees from Communist Vietnam.

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