IANS- A total of about 250 students, mostly from India, have been arrested in a sting operation by US immigration officials who set up a fake university in sting operation, according to media reports. About 90 students were arrested in recent months in addition to the 161 the officials said they had arrested in March […]
Ritu Jha- “It’s hard, no one can do anything, not even the Indian consulate,” said Raj, the cousin of a student detained at Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, California. His cousin, arrested on January 30 from Raj’s home in Los Angeles at around 7 am, was one of 160 people enrolled as students […]
Ritu Jha – The number of people arrested in the case of the fake university set up as a sting operation has gone up to 146. Carissa Cutrell, a spokesperson for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told indica, “As of Friday, February 1, ICE had arrested 146 individuals for civil immigration violations related to their […]
IANS – The US has accused the students arrested in connection with a fake university visa scam of being “aware they were committing a crime” for visas when they enrolled at the institution while lawyers for those charged accused the government of tricking them. The State Department said on Monday in a statement: “All […]
Ritu Jha – The student recruiters who allegedly fraudulently helped hundreds of foreign nationals illegally remain in the US as students of the fake University of Farmington are to presented in court again February 3. “Everyone is being held until Monday’s detention hearings,” a spokesperson for the US District Court of Eastern Michigan told […]
Ritu Jha – Students are chained, not given proper food and are terrified, according to a relative of one of the students caught in the fake university sting set up by US authorities. They are among hundreds of people enrolled at the University of Farmington, a fake university set up by the Department of […]
