“If this guy was here on a student visa, State would have taken prints from two of his fingers during the app process.”
That’s right. It would also mean that even if the creep was unrecognizable from the neck up, the authorities would have known his id from those fingerprints.
Now there is a question that should have been asked at the Presser
Because it was reported early they couldn't identify the guy because his finger prints were not on file