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Government's Fake University Trap Results in 21 Visa Fraud Arrests
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. government set up a fake college called the University of Northern New Jersey as a trap to find and arrest 21 people on charges of visa fraud, reports Newsweek. The arrested 21 individuals were brokers, employers, and recruiters who conspired with more than 1,000 foreign nationals to fraudulently obtain student and foreign worker visas through a "pay to stay" New Jersey college, Department of Justice was quoted as saying. Those overseas students now face being deported from the United States for buying visas, in an alleged immigration scam worth up to $1m. From the report, "During conversations with undercover agents, one of the recruiters, Alvin Yeun, said 'we've been doing this for years' and told an agent not to worry. The 21 people arrested are residents are New Jersey, New York, California, Illinois and Georgia; some were also involved in committing work visa fraud."
Should of also gone after loan abuse with schools as well.
What? It's US policy to encourage rich people and educated people to move here. Investing a million dollars in US provides benefits to our economy. This is a wonderful policy. There's no guarantee or even motivation of egalitarianism towards immigrants.
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You can't blame the schools for trying to make every buck they can. If such large loans weren't so readily available, the schools couldn't charge as much.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
You can't blame the schools for trying to make every buck they can.
Yes, you can. While raking in the moo-la has become the primary purpose of institutes of higher learning, it didn't use to be that way.
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I think the University was essentially a honeypot.
They couldn't really do that with a "real" university lest the people they catch claim that they were in fact just trying to go the said real university. This way they set up a new university, sent out some brochures about how they 'love to work with our foreign friends' and let the people come to them. The fact that the university didn't exist before helps their case in that the people involved really weren't about helping people get an education.
Not the only candidate. Bernie Sanders has spoken out against free trade AND has a proven track record of voting against disastrous trade bills.
Bernie voted to increase H1B immigration at the last go-around, as did Rubio.
Cruz voted against, and (of course) Trump and Clinton weren't legislators.
I don't know how the GP post got modded as "funny", Trump's position has been "pro-Americans" from the beginning, and is the source of his popularity.
Well, if you really want to get into it, it's BS because a conservative backed government *in theory* wouldn't support government backed loans to go to school and would let the free market take care of it. And in a free market, ain't no way any bank is going to loan somebody 100K for a major in "*studies" if the student has the ability to file bankruptcy and get out of paying it back. But once it's government backed, and the person can't wipe it with bankruptcy then the schools are able to jack their prices up, up, up because the whole world is telling these kids you need to get a degree and it doesn't matter what in, just that you need one and those kids are naive enough to believe them. Remove the easy access to the money, and kids can't afford to go to school, and the schools lose demand and have to adjust their prices downward. Seriously, if you think universities need to charge as much as they do, go to a modern campus, they're architectural wonders and buildings are constantly being replaced. God forbid if a building hits 30 years old.