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DHS Drops Other Shoe on 'Pretend Employers' Fraud in OPT Program
Center for Immigration Studies ^ | June 19, 2020 | By David North

Posted on 06/20/2020 4:29:44 PM PDT by 11th_VA

The Department of Homeland Security has just taken a useful move to deport or deny re-admission to some 4,600 alien college grads who have been abusing the Optional Practical Training program.

The aliens did so by paying a pretend employer to give them "reference letters", which they use to maintain what looks like legal OPT status while working, in fact, for yet another employer, in the latter case illegally.

The news comes from an unlikely source, a press release from a Houston law firm, Reddy & Neumann, which wrote: "4,600 Nonimmigrants Expected to be Deported for Using Fraudulent Experience Letters."

The firm went on that some 100 F-1 "students" (really alumni) "mostly from India, had received a notification from the Mumbai Consulate regarding [their] visa revocation" for this reason.

The scheme, as we reported in October 2018, had been stumbled upon by the FBI as it investigated what it regarded as a national security breach. Then both the NBC-TV affiliate in the Bay Area, and CIS — acting in the same manner, but independently of each other — pointed out that there were other "pretend OPT employers" using the scheme, and making millions in the process.

We identified about a dozen firms that might be in the business by noting their feeble websites and an unusual hiring pattern reported (but apparently not acted upon) by the sleepy arm of ICE that is supposed to regulate international students, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)...

(Excerpt) Read more at cis.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corporatewelfare; hireamerican; immigration; opt
I’m shocked, shock I tell you ...
1 posted on 06/20/2020 4:29:44 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Good bye illegal alien Indian scum. Now remove the rest of the lying and cheating H1B and H4EAD Indian scum


2 posted on 06/20/2020 5:11:21 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: 11th_VA

“an unusual hiring pattern reported (but apparently not acted upon) by the sleepy arm of ICE that is supposed to regulate international students”

ICE is part of DHS, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian trade group Nasscom; DHS head Chad “Swamp” Wolf is a former Nasscom lobbyist.


3 posted on 06/20/2020 5:34:37 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: 11th_VA

Stumbled upon?!?!?

This scheme has been common knowledge in the industry for years.

Very low hanging fruit.


4 posted on 06/20/2020 5:37:50 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: glorgau

It’s not the FBI’s bailiwick but DHS’ - and DHS doesn’t want to know, being in India’s pocket.


5 posted on 06/20/2020 5:45:18 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: 11th_VA

I’m not shocked in the least, guess who folded like a cheap suit. Throw a dog a bone article, that’s all it is. More deceitful words just before the Tulsa rally, notice the category of exemptions for the real story in this other article. They intend to fully flood the medical professions with these third world Indians. Unbelievable, a country that sent Americans to the moon now relies on third worlders to be our saviors. Spit.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/20/report-trump-to-halt-inflow-of-foreign-visa-workers-while-30m-jobless/


6 posted on 06/20/2020 6:23:06 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could kata - Romeo company)
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This has been going on since the 90’s and is much bigger than DHS will admit.
At least they are doing something unlike the Bush Admin.


7 posted on 06/21/2020 4:43:33 AM PDT by Zathras
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