31.   The asylum seekers, most of whom were from Iraq and Afghanistan, had paid smugglers for passage to Australia.

32.   The arrivals are not the rafters of the past, but people who paid professional smugglers to be taken to the United States.

33.   The immigrants pay Turkish smugglers in a bid to reach western Europe.

34.   The immigrants said they had paid Turkish smugglers to transport them to a rocky islet off the coast of Simi in a number of small boats.

35.   They usually pay Turkish smugglers to get them across.

36.   Thousands of illegal immigrants from Asia and the Middle East pay smugglers to sneak them into European countries via Turkey each year.

37.   Thousands of illegal immigrants from Asia and the Middle East pay smugglers to sneak them into Western Europe via Turkey each year.

38.   Usually they pay smugglers to take them.

39.   While the men claimed not to have paid the two Greek truckers who were transporting them, Martorano says they suspect that smugglers were paid.

40.   Many just overstay their visas, others pay smugglers to bring them in, or make bogus applications for political asylum.