Farmington Hills university set up by feds to nab illegal immigrants

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The headline is a bit misleading, it seems they were actually targeting the folks assisting in committing immigration fraud.

 

The Department of Homeland Security said it set up a fake university in Farmington Hills to target immigrant students who were staying in the U.S. without proper authorization, according to federal indictments unsealed in Detroit Wednesday. 

Eight people were arrested and indicted for conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit, said US. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Matthew Schneider. Six of them were arrested in metro Detroit, one in Florida, and another in Virginia. 

An indictment says the defendants helped at least 600 "foreign citizens to illegally remain, re-enter and work in the United States and actively recruited them to enroll in a fraudulent school as part of a 'pay to stay' scheme."

The indictments were filed Jan. 15 and unsealed Wednesday. They allege that from February 2017 through January 2019, the defendants "conspired with each other and others to fraudulently facilitate hundreds of foreign nationals in illegally remaining and working in the United States by actively recruiting them to enroll into a metro Detroit private university that, unbeknownst to the conspirators, was operated by HSI (Homeland Security Investigation) special agents as part of an undercover operation."

HSI is an investigative arm of the Dept. of Homeland Security.

 

https://www.freep.com/story/news/2019/01/30/farmington-university-immigrant-arrests/2724992002/

Edited January 30, 2019 by Bill & Katya

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