Thread: ICE Alleges California School was a “Sham Universityâ€

ICE Alleges California School was a “Sham Universityâ€

None of this shocks me. It is a common practice for the Chinese to dress up their "move" to Southern California. They often carry on the farce of being students, and go about acquiring/maintaining student visas. First, they'll attend a private English school (commonly run by other Chinese) for a few years, and then move on to an "Oriental Medicine" or other college that isn't exactly UCLA or USC. If "successful," they'll first study for an undergraduate degree and then move on to "graduate studies."

The idea is that they have/obtain legal residency through a student visa. They attend/go to classes as little as possible, and usually work some job (all cash or under-the-table) in the extensive Chinese community in the San Gabriel Valley.

The major difference between the poor Asians who come to L.A. and the destitute Mexicans and folks from Latin America, is that the former usually attempt to maintain the facade/charade of being in the country lawfully.

Also, they go out of their way to hide/remain undetected. You won't be seeing folks from Beijing waving Chinese flags around demanding to be legalized and to be taught in Mandarin, any time soon.

And usually, at such a Chinese institutions, there is a smattering of Indians, Israelis, Eastern Europeans and non-Latinos in the "student body."

How do I know this? I used to teach English classes ...

[It was heavily into bringing Indians here, to fake being students while they took American jobs illegally]

WASHINGTON: Hundreds of Indian students , mostly from Andhra Pradesh , face the prospect of deportation from the US after authorities raided and shut down a university in the Silicon Valley on charges of a massive immigration fraud .

The Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, a major suburb in San Francisco Bay Area, has been charged by federal investigating authorities with being part of an effort to defraud, misuse visa permits and indulge in money laundering and other crimes.

According to a federal complaint filed in a California court, the University, which was raided and shut down last week, helped foreign nationals illegally acquire immigration status.

The university is said to have 1,555 students. As many as 95 per cent of these students are Indian nationals, the complaint said.

Investigations by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) found that while students were admitted to various residential and online courses of the university and on paper lived in California, in reality they "illegally" worked in various parts of the country as far as Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

ICE has called it as a "sham university." The ICE investigations found that more than half of these students were reported to be residing in a single apartment located in Sunnyvale California.

During the course of the investigation ICE found that the university gave the residential address of its students in order to conceal that they did not live in California, said the court papers.

For a student to maintain an active immigration status, they must show proof that they are making reasonable process towards completing coursework and physically attend classes.

Federal investigating authorities are now sweeping out on each of those students, who paid lakhs for obtaining students visa and also students work permit.

Several of them have been interrogated, creating a panic reaction among the Indian student community.

Many of the students from Andhra Pradesh, who were planning to join the university for the new semester, have cancelled their US travel plans.

Classes were scheduled to start on January 10 after the winter break.

It is understood that many of these students are planning to leave the country as soon as possible as they are being interrogated.

There are unconfirmed reports of some of the students being detained and deportation process has been started against them.

Once the university has been shut down, the students who come on F-1 visa, lose their status within a stipulated time. These students have been making desperate calls to Indian- American immigration attorneys.

"We have received verification that ICE has detained some of the students and placed them in removal proceedings," Murthy Law Firm, a popular immigration attorney firm among Indian-Americans, said in a posting on its website.

On January 20, 2011 the Murthy Law Firm received numerous phone calls from students registered at Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, California, it said in its posting.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 359653.cms

That is where the latinos have made their biggest mistake , Instead of staying under the radar they choose instead to flout their illegality.

They need to deport her butt and sell off all the property and put the money to more ICE operations so they can deport more of the illegals.

And as you notice, La Raza and ACLU aren't jumping in claiming that
the students being deported, aren't violent criminals.

ACLU is being quiet because they must have alot of those students within their ranks.

Posted earlier: http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-225264.html

PLEASANTON -- A Pleasanton university that catered to mostly online students is being called a sham by federal prosecutors who say the university was a front to illegally provide immigration status to foreign nationals.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Wednesday were at the Tri-Valley University campus on Boulder Court in Pleasanton and executed search warrants at three other properties owned by school founder Susan Su, including one in the gated Ruby Hill community.

The complaint, filed by the U.S. District Attorney's Office on Wednesday, claims Su was part of an elaborate scheme to defraud, using false statements and misrepresentations to the Department of Homeland Security.

"Since its inception ... Tri-Valley University has been a sham university, which Su, and others, have used to facilitate foreign nationals in illegally acquiring student immigration status that authorizes them to remain in the United States," the complaint reads.

According to the complaint, Su and Tri-Valley University have made millions of dollars in tuition fees for issuing the visa-related documents, enabling foreign nationals to obtain illegal student immigration status.

Calls to Tri-Valley University were not returned.

ICE began its investigation in May 2010. The institution received is approval to issue visas in February 2009 and had the approval for about 30 students. In May 2009 the school had 11 active students that had

According to the complaint, more than 95 percent of students were from India. For more than half of them, the university reported their address was a single apartment in Sunnyvale. The apartment manager told ICE agents that four university students lived there from June 2007 to August 2009 and none since.

Investigators believe TVU reported that most of its students live at the apartment to conceal they don't live in the state.

For a student to maintain the immigration status, they must show proof they are making reasonable process toward completing coursework and physically attend classes.

One of the school's professors, who did not want his name used, said Thursday he was shocked by the investigation. He said he taught online courses out of his home since 2009 and he said his experience with the university has been positive.

"I teach high quality courses and my students are good students and that's all I can tell you," he said.

He said classes were supposed to restart Jan. 10 after winter break, but there was a delay. He said he got an email from Su on Thursday that said classes would begin soon.

http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_17151 ... ck_check=1

I have been wondering how many illegals might get diplomas from online universities in the US and how that works.

ALL diplomas and credits given to a person who is illegally here need to be revoked and taken off of the records at the school or university. This included High School. By doing this it limits illegals from applying for jobs that mandate higher education as a requirement. It also keeps them out of the military as well.