California man Busted in Middle Eastern Visa Scam

One of the main reasons that Islam is slowly destroying us from within, is because what are supposed to be our own people, are blatantly helping our enemies. Here is another example of this.

Repost from Threat Matrix thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2462221/posts?page=254#254
THIS story is important. no one is covering this. 911 hijackers carried student visas and never attended classes. A school in California was raided and closed because of this a few years ago, doing the same thing this school was doing.

Student Visa Fraud Ring Found at Miami School, U.S. Says
Friday, March 05, 2010

MIAMI — Authorities say a Florida language school helped illegally obtain student visas for foreign nationals who never went to class.

The U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sloman said Thursday in Miami that none of the 81 students detained has been linked to terrorism.

The school’s owner, 58-year-old Lydia Menocal, and 75-year-old employee Ofelia Macia allegedly made $2.4 million over the past three years from foreign nationals applying for U.S. student visas.

Authorities say the women should have reported the absences under laws that took effect after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Menocal and Macia were charged with conspiring to commit an offense against the U.S.

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2 Miami women charged with vast student visa fraud
The feds say more than 200 foreigners were able to stay in the U.S. using visas illegally acquired through a small language school. (This is misleading. This “school” has been in business for 30 years!

The Florida Language Institute occupies two small rooms in a corner of the second floor of a strip mall near a corner of West Miami-Dade.

But federal officials say the intensive English-as-a-second-language courses that the school offered to foreign students were not the only service for sale.

On Thursday, the school’s owner and director and the office manager faced charges of running a vast student-visa fraud scheme, and the Department of Homeland Security has essentially shut down the school, prohibiting it from accepting any more foreign students.

Officials said at least 80 students from multiple countries were also taken into custody and may be deported as a result of the two-year probe.

According to federal officials, the women, Lydia Menocal and Ofelia Macia, tricked immigration officials into granting more than 200 student visas to foreign nationals who were not really students.

Jeffrey H. Sloman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Anthony V. Mangione, special agent in charge at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Investigations, Miami Field Office, described the scheme at a news conference as the largest single visa-fraud takedown since ICE was created in 2003.

The scam was simple: Foreign nationals fraudulently enrolled as students at Florida Language Institute, 947 SW 87th Ave., and received the papers to remain in the country as students, according to a grand jury indictment in the case.

Federal agents believe the students never showed up for any classes — and that the women knew it. It’s unclear how much the students paid for their fraudulent visas. Established 30 years ago, the institute charged $1,250 for five courses.

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School Is Linked To Visa Fraud

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In announcing the arrests, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jeffrey Sloman, noted that several Sept. 11 hijackers “were foreign nationals who abused the student visa program to enter and stay in the United States illegally.”

According to the indictment, the language school first received approval from the Department of Homeland Security and then issued the requisite federal forms to the prospective students so they could apply for and receive student visas. Ms. Menocal swore on the forms that the students would attend classes.

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Me: THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROVED THIS SCHOOL!

We have no idea how many “students” have passed through this scheme and are still out there. ICE has no idea how many are walking the streets of this country.
While the DHS is busy targetting Tea Parties and Conservative AMERICAN activists, it has been the left and the muslims committing ALL these acts of violence, but this just boggles my mind!
NO ONE IS COVERING THIS!!!

Put this first article in context with the school selling student visas. This is much deeper than what we see on the surface.
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California Man Took College Exams for Middle Eastern Students, ICE Officials Say (about VISAs)

Daniel Higgins doesn’t look like a Middle Eastern student, but officials say he routinely portrayed himself as one for almost a decade, getting paid up to $1,500 per student to attend their classes and take exams so they could keep their visas current and remain in the U.S.

Officials say that records seized from Higgins’ home in Laguna Niguel, Calif., show that more than 100 students from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates hired him to do their classwork and take their tests.
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