Flooded with phone calls from panic-stricken students, an eminent Indian American attorney on Tuesday alleged that Department of Homeland Security knowingly allowed the “fake university” to be set up and misled students sitting hundreds of miles away in another country. A day after the State Department blamed Indian students for the mass detention and possible deportation from the US for enrolling themselves in a fake university set up by the Department of Homeland Security, California-based immigration attorney Anu Peshawaria said that the undercover operation has devastating consequences for hundred of Indian students. As per last week’s figures provided by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as many as 130 of the 600 students from the fake University of Farmington were detained last week. Worse, these students, based on their approved i-20s even got driver licenses from the US Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Also read: US escalates dispute, dismisses India’s stand that fake university students were dupedFirst Published: Feb 06, 2019 15:42 IST

Source: Hindustan Times February 06, 2019 10:07 UTC