Prospective students who paid thousands of dollars to a fake university created by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be allowed to sue the agency after a federal appeals court ruling on June 25th.
The fake university was created as part of an ICE sting operation aimed at targeting individuals who commit visa fraud. The plan was revealed in 2019 when the agency charged eight people for “harboring aliens for profit.”
The operation was aimed at targeting fraud involving student visas, but the university provided no classes, no curriculum and no educators, according to court documents.
[Teja] Ravi was one of the people fooled when he applied to the fake school, and he was never repaid his tuition, he alleges in the lawsuit.
“The government’s operation eventually came to light, but the government neither provided the paid-for education nor gave Mr. Ravi his money…
