Fake University Students Arrested

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, has detained 90 students in the Detroit metropolitan area who were arrested thanks to an operation that lured young foreigners to enroll in a fake university.

In total, there are about 250 students who have been arrested since January thanks to this operation through which federal ICE agents deceived the young people by luring them to the alleged educational institution that was named Farmington University and which was based in Farmington. Hills, Michigan.

The young people fell into the trap, lured under false promises to have access to technology and computer programs, mainly, according to agents from the same agency, who told USA Today.

Much of the detainees come from India and have been deported. Others are detained and awaiting review of their cases.

The fake university closed its doors in January and by doing so its foreign students, who came to this country with a student visa, automatically lost their immigration status. The worst of the case is that this fake institution managed to raise millions of dollars by deceiving the more than 600 students that according to Free Press came to enroll in their classes.

Inquiries into the activities of this fake university began in early 2019. Here are some of those affected in an Elizabeth detention center in New Jersey:

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Most of the students were recruited through a program called Curricular Practical Training that allowed them to obtain the F-1 visa to enter the country. University of Farmington was created in 2016 and its annual cost of studies was a few years with an internship in local companies.