Police Assistant Commissioner Steve Lancaster: South Australia

South Australia: Australian Federal Police agents raided immigration detention centres and homes before dawn in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales, Police Assistant Commissioner Steve Lancaster said, according to Times Colonist. Escalating numbers of asylum seekers paying people smugglers to bring them to Australia from ports in Indonesia and Malaysia in rickety, overcrowded fishing boats has become as major political issue ahead of Australian elections next week and PERTH, Australia - Authorities taking part in Australia's largest ever crackdown on people smugglers arrested five men Thursday from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, picking them up in four different states. Police were targeting the kingpins of people smuggling syndicates involved in the planning or facilitation of up to 132 boats bringing asylum seekers to Australia in the past two years, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.