"We came here in 1971 and we have stayed since," said Sheik Barah, a tailor from Dhaka who lives in a crowded slum in New Delhi, where at least 100,000 have illegally settled.

"Many of these people have settled illegally here," said Dhiremn Bezbaruah, a newspaper editor.

Along the way they encounter a hidden planet which has been inhabited by six races which have illegally settled and dropped out of the civilization of the Five Galaxies.

To raise money for the examination, Raja and his friends take up a job, one that entailed getting rid of a tenant who had illegally settled in a house.

Among the first duties of the Southwest Point garrison was to remove individuals (known as "squatters") who had settled on Cherokee lands illegally.

The setting is not Beverly Hills but Tel Aviv, and the maid is not Hispanic but an Ethiopian Christian who has illegally settled in Israel in search of work.

By this time many blacks were already illegally settled in townships like Nyanga and Crossroads.

Settled illegally by eager gold rushers in the 1870s, Deadwood (inspiration for the hit HBO series) is now a National Historic Landmark.

Several thousand people who had settled illegally in Kenya's most important forest have left their homes at the beginning of an eviction plan designed to end rampant environmental degradation in the Rift valley.

Disputes in villages, when settled illegally, still involve lathi battles, but this is no longer common and has largely been replaced by legal methods or, rarely, shootouts.