Hoi is a Vietnamese-Australian human rights lawyer based in Los Angeles. His parents had escaped Vietnam during the war in the seventies. At the height of the exodus, over 10,000 refugees lived in camps in Palawan after traveling by boat to the country’s shores. In the late eighties, a plan of action was devised across Asia that sent home refugees to Vietnam, many of them in fear of their lives. The Philippines was the one country that allowed them to stay.