Student visas are rife for exploitation by scam artists and terrorists.
It is easy for bogus diploma mills to fool the Department of Homeland Security and be admitted into the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, according to a recent study by the Government Accountability Office.
Just 151 DHS employees, and 600 part-time and full-time contractors oversee 850,000 students enrolled at 10,000 different schools, which include nonaccredited language, vocational and religious schools.
Even when a student attends a legit school, there is little tracking. Schools wait 30 days before reporting to Immigration and Customs Enforcement when a foreigner drops out — or never shows up.
Only then will that visitor be deemed “out of status” and an investigation opened. There are tens of thousands of these investigations a year, a law-enforcement source said.
In Quazi Nafis’s case, he informed Southeast Missouri State University that he was transferring to ASA College in New York, and ICE was notified.
“There were no red flags,” the source added.
Sen. Charles Schumer yesterday called for an inspector-general probe “into why the State Department granted this individual a visa” and whether ICE should have denied his school-transfer request.