DHS and ICE are effective when it comes to monitoring and managing the amnesty program.
Via NRO
The federal government has arrested the ringleaders of four Los Angeles schools that ran “pay-to-stay” scams, whereby student-visa holders managed to stay in the U.S. without ever attending classes. The schools collected $6 million per year in tuition payments from the students, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Former Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee staffers tell NR that this is more evidence that the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency is trying to manage a program they do not understand. “The oversight work that’s been done looking at [the Student Exchange and Visitor Program], it shows that…DHS and ICE aren’t really managing it effectively,” says one former committee staffer.
When DHS investigators conducted a surprise check at the American College of Forensic Studies, they found one, single student in one, single religion class, despite the school’s claims that 300 foreign students were enrolled at the school, according to the Times. At Prodee University, investigators found just three foreign students in one English class, despite the more than 900 foreign students who were enrolled at the school.
In his final DHS oversight report earlier this year, former Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn detailed the extensive problems with the Student Exchange and Visitor Program. Coburn noted that if responsibility for overseeing the SEVP program was distributed evenly among the 200 ICE agents assigned to the program, then each agent would be responsible for monitoring approximately 6,500 students.