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    1,000 Students Face Deportation from US

    1,000 Students Face Deportation from US

    By V Nirupa Sathya Sree

    Published: 08th April 2016 04:42 AM
    Last Updated: 08th April 2016 04:54 AM

    HYDERABAD: Indian students who joined the University of Northern New Jersey (UNNJ), which was a sting institution set up by US federal authorities to bust the student visa racket, are being deported post haste without being given the chance to join another college, sources in student circles in the US told Express.

    This is a radical departure from the practice followed after a similar university, Tri-Valley, was busted five years ago.


    According to Express sources, the visas of almost all the Indian students of UNNJ have been terminated and the deportation process has been set in motion.

    Some students from Hyderabad are already on their way back home, they added.


    About 1,000 students are learnt to have been given termination letters by the US immigration authorities.


    In a nationwide sweep, US federal authorities arrested 21 people (10 of them Indian-Americans) in New York, New Jersey, Washington and Virginia as part of the UNNJ sting operation against students taking admission in what are called Pay to Stay universities only to be able to reside in the US and work. The UNNJ was a fake university set up by the US authorities to expose the visa scam.


    The arrested people were brokers, recruiters and employers who fraudulently obtained student visas and foreign worker visas for approximately 1,000 foreign nationals from 26 countries. It is learnt that a large number of students from India pay huge sums to brokers and agents to get them admission in a Pay to Stay University.


    The fees charged is often much less and mandatory attendance is minimal. An accompanying phenomenon to this racket is the recruitment of these students for part-time or lowly-paid jobs.


    US officials, however, did not give the number of Indian students who were trapped in the year-long sting operation.


    “My friend joined UNNJ some six months back. Soon after the scam was busted, his visa was terminated and he was asked to leave the country immediately. Right now, he is on his way to Hyderabad,” said a New York-based Indian student whose friend had enrolled in UNNJ. He added, “He had no clue that the university is a fake one. He could not secure a job even three months after completing his masters, and he decided to do a second degree. Because when he joined UNNJ, it cost him just $6,000 per course against the $20,000 charged by other universities. The management assured that he would get a certificate even if he did not attend the college regularly. So he started concentrating on part-time jobs,” he added.


    In 2011, when news of the Tri-Valley University scam broke, the US authorities allowed the transfer of Indian students to other institutions. Apart from that, the US officials then also assured that in case of anybody deciding to opt out of the transfer process and go back to India and apply afresh from there, their cases would be considered on the basis of the quality of the fresh applications without any reference to the TVU scam.


    No official statement has been released yet either by the US consulate in India or by the Indian government on this issue.

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    Why educating foreign STEM students is bad for American workers and national security.


    September 10, 2015
    Michael Cutler

    On September 3, 2015 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued an important news release, “SEVP releases quarterly report on international students studying in US: 9 percent increase in international students, 32 percent increase in students from India since 2014.”
    Here is an excerpt from that news release:
    Based on data extracted from SEVIS July 7, there are more than one million international students, using an F (academic) or M (vocational) visa, enrolled at nearly 9,000 U.S. schools. This marked a nine percent increase when compared to July 2014 data.
    Seventy-six percent of all international students were from Asia. The top 10 countries of citizenship for international students included: China, India, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Mexico and Brazil.
    India and Vietnam had the greatest percentage increase in students studying in the United States at 31.9 and 25.9 percent, respectively, when compared to statistics extracted from SEVIS July 2014. The University of Southern California, New York University, Columbia University, the University of Illinois and Purdue University ranked one through five among U.S. schools with the most international students.
    More than 400,000 international students pursued STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) coursework in July 2015, an increase of nearly 17.7 percent from July 2014 data (more than 60,000). Sixty-six percent of international students studying STEM fields were male. Eighty-six percent of international students studying STEM coursework were from Asia. More international students studied engineering than any other STEM field of study, with 29 percent of those engineering students coming from India.
    There are several issues pertaining to this ICE new release that must be considered:
    1. The H-1B Visa Program which all too often enable foreign high-tech workers such as computer programmers, scientists, engineers and other STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) professionals to displace American STEM professionals has sparked outrage among displaced American workers who have the requisite education, abilities and experience, but lost their jobs to H-1B visa holders. Providing STEM degrees to foreign students floods the pool of foreign professionals who compete with American students who are pursuing STEM degrees and American STEM professionals who are already working in these high-tech fields.
    Even American STEM workers who retain their jobs suffer wage suppression. This coincides with the Strategy articulated to achieve “wage equality” by Alan Greenspan when on April 30, 2009 he testified before a hearing conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee that was chaired by Senator Chuck Schumer on the topic, “Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2009, Can We Do It and How?



    Lost in America: Visa Program Struggles to 'Track Missing Foreign Students'
    ." Here is how this report began:
    The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and essentially vanished -- exploiting a security gap that was supposed to be fixed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
    "My greatest concern is that they could be doing anything," said Peter Edge, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who oversees investigations into visa violators. "Some of them could be here to do us harm."
    Homeland Security officials disclosed the breadth of the student visa problem in response to ABC News questions submitted as part of an investigation into persistent complaints about the nation’s entry program for students.
    ABC News found that immigration officials have struggled to keep track of the rapidly increasing numbers of foreign students coming to the U.S. -- now in excess of one million each year. The immigration agency’s own figures show that 58,000 students overstayed their visas in the past year. Of those, 6,000 were referred to agents for follow-up because they were determined to be of heightened concern.

    “They just disappear,” said Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. “They get the visas and they disappear.”
    Coburn said since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, 26 student visa holders have been arrested in the U.S. on terror-related charges.
    Tightening up the student visa program was one of the major recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission, after it was determined that the hijacker who flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon, Hani Hanjour, had entered the U.S. on a student visa but never showed up for school.

    Edge said ICE agents are trying to locate every one of the 6,000 missing students, but acknowledged that “we really have a lot more work to do” to tighten up the student visa program.


    Despite repeated concerns raised by Congress, federal immigration officials have also continued to grant schools certification to accept overseas applicants even if the schools lack accreditation, state certification, or any obvious measure of academic rigor.

    There are now more than 9,000 schools on the government approved list. The list includes such top flight American colleges as Harvard and Yale, but it also includes 86 beauty schools, 36 massage schools and nine schools that teach horseshoeing. Foreign students can enter the U.S. on a visa to study acupuncture, hair braiding, or join academies that focus on tennis and golf.
    Once the student arrives in the U.S., it is up to the schools to keep track of the visa-holder’s whereabouts -- and report to the government if they repeatedly miss class.

    That is a serious concern, Coburn said, because a number of for-profit schools appear to have been operating with a primary goal of selling visas, not educating students.
    In some instances, foreign nationals engaged in terrorism have been well-educated in American schools and universities, acquiring the very skills that they can use to create weapons of mass destruction.

    Consider the case of Aafia Saddiqui. This Pakistan-born scientist with a PhD in neuroscience was educated in the United States at MIT and Brandeis University. She was subsequently convicted of attempting to kill U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan. On September 23, 2010 CNN published a report about her case, "Pakistani scientist gets 86 years for Afghan attack" that began with the following excerpt:
    A federal judge Thursday sentenced a Pakistani scientist convicted of attempting to kill Americans in Afghanistan to 86 years in prison.
    A jury in Manhattan convicted Aafia Siddiqui on seven charges, including attempted murder and armed assault on U.S. officers, in February. She will serve her sentence at a facility in Texas where she was previously held while awaiting trial.
    Prosecutors said Siddiqui picked up a rifle and shot at two FBI special agents, a U.S. Army warrant officer, an Army captain and military interpreters while she was being held unrestrained at an Afghan facility on July 18, 2008. The agents returned fire shooting her in the abdomen.
    Afghan police had arrested her outside the Ghazni governor's compound in central Afghanistan after finding her with bomb-making instructions, excerpts from the "Anarchist's Arsenal," papers with descriptions of U.S. landmarks, and substances sealed in bottles and glass jars, according to the charges.
    The indictment said Siddiqui had "handwritten notes that referred to a 'mass casualty attack'" listing several locations in the United States and "construction of 'dirty bombs.'" Upon her conviction, the American-educated neuroscientist, blasted the decision as "a verdict from Israel, not America." Siddiqui's family said she had been unjustly convicted.
    At her sentencing Thursday morning, the 38 year-old MIT graduate shook her head in defiance and wagged her finger in a "no" gesture as U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman laid out the case against her.
    About two weeks after the media reported on the case of Aafia Siddiqui, the media turned its attention to another terrorist who was born in Pakistan. On October 5, 2010 Fox News, in conjunction with the Associated Press, published a report, "Times Square Bomber Sentenced to Life in Prison," about Faisal Shahzad, a 31-year-old man who had first entered the United States on a student visa when he was 20 years old. He ultimately became a naturalized United States citizen and then, less than one year later, attempted to detonate an SUV packed with explosives in the heart of Times Square, “the crossroads of the world,” with the goal of killing as many innocent victims as possible.


    On September 3, 2014 I was interviewed on the Newsmax-TV news program “America's Forum” by J.D. Hayworth and his co-host, Francesca Page. The focus was on the concerns those missing 6,000 foreign students generated. Newsmax published a report about my interview under the title, "Ex-INS Officer: Hire More Agents to Find Missing Visa Holders."


    On December 6, 2014 Fox News published a report, "Saudi-born US naval engineer allegedly gave undercover agent info on how to sink carrier." The report focused on Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, the defendant in this case, who was educated in the United States, became a resident alien, and then acquired U.S. citizenship. He agreed to provide an FBI undercover agent with the plans of the Gerald R. Ford, a $13 billion aircraft carrier that is still under construction and has brand-new unique innovations. Allegedly Awwad even told the undercover agent where the ship would be most vulnerable to being sunk by a missile strike.

    On December 22, 2014 a far more extensive report about Awwad's case was published in the online newspaper, the Virginia Pilot, "Engineer's arrest shows weakness with security checks." The last few sentences of that report contains a very interesting statement made by the defendant, himself:
    The Ford is the lead ship of the Navy's first new aircraft carrier class in nearly 50 years. Scheduled to sail by 2016, the ship is packed with cutting-edge systems, from catapults to radars to electronics.
    Obtaining that technology could help a nation with a developing navy shave off years of research and development, the official said.
    In a Dec. 10 hearing in federal court, prosecutor Joseph DePadilla said Awwad told an agent he turned down a better-paying job with Lockheed Martin so he could work at the shipyard and sell its secrets to Egypt.
    DePadilla said Awwad, believing that he was talking with an Egyptian intelligence officer, mocked the U.S. government for hiring people like himself.
    "I don't know what is wrong with this government," he cited Awwad as saying. "They hire the Chinese. They hire the Russians. They hire us."
    The Awwad case is still unfolding. In the meantime, he's been denied bond, indicted for crimes that could send him to prison for 40 years.
    China sends us the greatest number of foreign students, followed by India which comes in second place. South Korea comes in third. Saudi Arabia is in the top ten list of countries whose students are studying in the United States.


    China has been rattling its military sabers of late, and a recent CBS/60 Minutes news report, “The Battle Above: U.S. and China are locked in a high stakes contest over satellites that are critical to national security and everyday life,” focused on the ability China now has to launch anti-satellite missiles that can take out satellites in low earth orbit and even at the somewhat higher orbit where our GPS satellites are positioned. The report noted that it may not be too long before China will have the capability of taking out satellites in geo-synchronous orbits. These are satellites that appear to be stationary over one spot of the earth because their orbits are so high (22,300 miles up) that it takes them as long to orbit the earth as it takes the earth to rotate.

    Our military has parked some its most valuable satellites in that orbit along with satellites that are used to provide global communication.

    The nagging question is: Did the Chinese engineers who have been building these anti-satellite missiles as well as their engineers building their nuclear navy and highly advanced fighter planes study in the United States?

    On May 20, 2015 Newsweek published an article, “A New Cold War, Yes. But It’s With China, Not Russia" that ends with this excerpt:
    There is, of course, tremendous irony in that. For decades, U.S. policy was to help China succeed economically. We had convinced ourselves that through trade and prosperity, political change would come in Beijing (just as it had in South Korea and Taiwan, former authoritarian economic success stories turned vibrant democracies). That notion is now long gone. The Chinese Communist Party, and its one-party rule, doesn’t appear to be going anywhere. It’s also playing a long game; its military is just a regional player now, but by 2049, when the party expects to celebrate its 100th anniversary in power, it may well be able to project force globally. That, anyway, is the intention of the more hawkish elements of the party and its military.
    Washington had earnestly hoped that the days of a global struggle against a powerful adversary were gone, the stuff of history books. That it’s now waking up and acknowledging a different reality is step one in what Liu Mingfu calls the central “fight” for the 21st century.
    Much is being made about the ill-conceived negotiations that the United States is conducting with Iran about that country's nuclear program. The question never raised in the media or by our political “representatives” is how did the Iranian scientists and engineers, who are working on that program, acquire their education. It is entirely possible -- indeed, plausible -- that they studied in the United States.
    We are now training our adversaries and little if anything is being done to stop this self-destructive and potentially suicidal practice.

    The obvious question is: What will it take to educate our political leaders to end this lunacy?


    Michael Cutler Michael Cutler is a retired Senior Special Agent of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) whose career spanned some 30 years. He served as an Immigration Inspector, Immigration Adjudications Officer and spent 26 years as an agent who rotated through all of the squads within the Investigations Branch. For half of his career he was assigned to the Drug Task Force. He has testified before well over a dozen congressional hearings, provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission as well as state legislative hearings around the United States and at trials where immigration is at issue. He hosts his radio show, “The Michael Cutler Hour,” on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio. His personal website is http://michaelcutler.net/.

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