Monday, March 21, 2011

A little-known aspect of foreign-student enrollments in the US

Little-Known Colleges Exploit Visa Loopholes to Make Millions Off Foreign Students


Karen Kasmauski for The Chronicle

A federal raid on Tri-Valley U., which investigators say took foreign students’ money in exchange for enabling them to work, has put the university’s 1,500 students in limbo. Above, four students wait to be interrogated by immigration agents at an office in Northern Virginia.



By Tom Bartlett, Karin Fischer, and Josh Keller

Early on a Friday morning, four college students stand shivering in the parking lot of an office complex in Sterling, Va. The building itself is unremarkable, red brick and dark glass, but security cameras are bolted to the walls, cement posts line the perimeter, and coils of concertina wire surround the trash bins. This is a branch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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