We’ve told you about food stamp scams, home health care fraud, drivers license testing schemes, and money transfer scams by immigrants designed to rip off American taxpayers. But this takes the cake! Maybe you heard about it tonight on Fox News. Hat tip: Blulitespecial
A 46 year old American has been arrested for helping more than a hundred Middle Eastern students keep their student visas by taking their tests for them thus allowing them to stay in the US. It is really outrageous—the California colleges where this happened never noticed that Higgins and his white helpers weren’t the Muslim foreign students! Unbelievable!
Daniel Higgins doesn’t look like a Middle Eastern student, but officials say he routinely portrayed himself as one for almost a decade, getting paid up to $1,500 per student to attend their classes and take exams so they could keep their visas current and remain in the U.S.
Officials say that records seized from Higgins’ home in Laguna Niguel, Calif., show that more than 100 students from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates hired him to do their classwork and take their tests.
Higgins, 46, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit immigration fraud when he appeared in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana on Monday.
Six others — Mohammed Alnuaim, Abdullah Alhogail, Khalid Almenaibi, Saeed Alfalahi, Ibrahim Almansoori and Mohamed Almehairi — were also arrested Monday and appeared with Higgins before a U.S. magistrate. All were charged with immigration fraud.
“This is unique and not something we have seen in the past,” said Jorge Guzman, a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We don’t know the motive of these men coming from these countries, why they were here or why they were not attending classes.”
ICE agents said some of the foreign students involved in the fraud will be charged with crimes, and others will simply be deported.
Then get this!
Sources said they do not know if any of the men are considered national security threats, but several are “persons of interest.”
So any guesses on what these 100 or so Muslim men were doing when they didn’t have to attend class?