Speech #1130115740

In 2011. TriValley University reported that they would bring in less than 100 students but actually brought in over 1.500. TriValley University officials were caught giving F1 visas to undercover agents posing as foreign nationals who explicitly professed no intention of ever attending classes. Students paid $5.400 per semester in tuition to the school to obtain those student visas until that school was shut down. On May 29 this year. the Micropower Career Institute in New York was raided by Federal officials. Its top officials were arrested on student visa fraud. Allegedly. school officials did not report foreign nationals when they didnt attend classes. and they falsified those student records so the school could continue to collect Federal education dollars for those students. But despite the indictment of officials at this socalled school. it still remains open for business. The Government Accountability Office reported to Congress in 2012 that sham schools posed a problem. We put a lot of faith in the work of the Government Accountability Office. The GAO said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not have a process to identify and analyze risks across schools. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has overlooked major indicators of fraud. and they cannot follow trends or predict abuse. Two years later the problems continue to exist and the Obama administration just fiddles while the problem burns. ABC News investigated the student visa program and made it public last week. They said 6.000 foreign nationals on student visas have disappeared. An ICE official acknowledged that they had "blended into the landscape somewhere." Yet this number of 6.000 is not the total number of student visa overstays. This is the number of students that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement is trying to locate. That ought to be alarming news that it is only 6.000. It is time to close the loopholes and clamp down on schools that have a poor track record with regard to foreign students.