Posted on 01/31/2019 7:49:20 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
For years, the Department of Homeland Security has operated a fake university in the Detroit suburbs as part of an undercover operation that lured undocumented immigrants seeking to obtain fraudulent student visas. Now, eight people from around the country have been indicted for “conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit,” as part of an elaborate scheme to aid as many as 600 foreign nationals in remaining in the United States illegally.
“We are all aware that international students can be a valuable asset to our country, but as this case shows, the well-intended international student visa program can also be exploited and abused,” said United States Attorney Matthew Schneider in a statement accompanying the indictments, unsealed on Wednesday and first reported by the Detroit News.
“These suspects aided hundreds of foreign nationals to remain in the United States illegally by helping to portray them as students, which they most certainly were not,” said Special Agent in Charge Steve Francis.
The University of Farmington, which touted itself on its website as “a nationally accredited business and STEM institution located in Metro Detroit,” had no instructors, no classes, and no legitimate students at its “campus” in an office park off the M-10 highway in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Instead, the school was operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations office in the hopes of arresting “recruiters,” who assisted foreign citizens in obtaining false student transcripts to prove eligibility for the F-1 Visa.
The F-1 Visa allows foreign nationals to reside in the United States as a full-time student at accredited institutions of higher learning. But according to the indictments, the recruiters helped orchestrate a conspiracy to enroll hundreds of students in the University of Farmington in exchange for money, a “pay-to-stay” arrangement that allegedly netted the indicted individuals nearly $300,000.
The recruiters—identified as Barath Kakireddy, of Lake Mary, Florida; Suresh Kandala, of Culpeper, Virginia; Phanideep Karnati, of Louisville, Kentucky; Prem Rampeesa, of Charlotte, North Carolina; Santosh Sama, of Fremont, California; Avinash Thakkallapally, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Aswanth Nune, of Atlanta; and Naveen Prathipati, of Dallas—actively recruited at least 600 foreign nationals to enroll into the fraudulent school, according to the indictment.
“It’s a little place called F.U.”
Oops. Ingenious! (Apparently I’m not...)
A really YUGE offender for over a decade has been City College of San Francisco:
It’s totally out of control, there.
They’re giving visas away on a massive scale to illegals with total impunity.
None of them with names you can pronounce, just as when Medicare fraud doctors are arrested. The US government is the stupidest entity on the planet, getting robbed by foreign and domestic criminals, but hey, it’s just taxpayer money.
For “years”? Which years, Scott? Did they teach you anything in gernolizm skool?
Fake “Medicare For All” cards would be fun. If they have thousands to give to coyotes and ***hole “immigration advocates”, they can pay their own medical bills.
Judging by the name they are all Indian.
"The University of Farmington has been closed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Affected student should contact their local Homeland Security Investigations office."
Here's the cached version of the website before it was taken down (until it disappears...).
I hear Farmington U. just got a contract with ESPN to broadcast all of their football games. Announcers have already been handed their “diversity is our strength” scripts to rehearse with.
Actually, the names listed all sound like Indian or Pakistani names......
I only wish my alma mater had reversed the letters so I could tell everybody that I went to FU.
Reminds me of the police scam where they send notices to guys that they have won lottery money and they must come to a certain building and room number to certify their identity.
Turns out to be a police trap and all the guys sitting on the folding chairs in the room have outstanding warrants or are behind in child support.
Now the leftists, progs, Democrats and marxists are going to scream “Foul! Entrapment! Unfair! You tricked those immigrants!”
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We need this in CA and AZ!
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Grad school at:
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The door wide open at our Southern Border is a disgrace and is killing the nation but so is the visa system that allows in just as many people who are saturating the country with those who do not have the best interests of the Republic.
ICE can buy a few farms and advertise for workers.....
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