11.   Sometimes refugees buy cheap, rickety boats in Cuba and pay smugglers to tow them to the Florida coast.

12.   The man refused to say how much he was paying the smugglers, but said he had heard about their work in Switzerland.

13.   The refugees in the first group told federal officials they had paid smugglers for passage into the United States.

14.   Those with enough money are paying smugglers to take them to Pakistan.

15.   Yellowbird activists promised to help him financially, so he paid a smuggler to take him to Hong Kong.

16.   Dan Danilov, a Seattle lawyer who specializes in immigration, says some Koreans would rather forgo the bureaucratic hassle and pay a smuggler.

17.   Each year, thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa pay Turkish smugglers to sneak them into prosperous European Union countries.

18.   Groups of illegal immigrants, mostly from the Middle East or Pakistan, often try to reach Greek islands from the Turkish coast by paying Turkish smugglers.

19.   Howard said the policy was aimed at persuading refugees not to pay people smugglers, based primarily in Indonesia, thousands of dollars to take them to Australia.

20.   It was unknown how much she had already paid the smugglers.