The 129 students were detained by US immigration authorities for allegedly exploiting the US student visa system. The Department of Homeland Security had set up a fake university in Michigan to nab eight recruiters involved in the visa fraud when the 129 Indian students were nabbed too. The Ministry of External Affairs had issued a demarche to the US embassy in New Delhi over the detention of the 129 Indian students and has been urging the US side to give "humane and dignified treatment" to the students including custom-sensitive "dietary and living arrangements" for the duration of their detention. The US authorities meanwhile plan to deport the Indian students and have placed them under "removal proceedings". Indian students comprised 17.3% — a total of 186,000 — of all international students in the US in 2017.

Source: dna February 07, 2019 14:03 UTC