ICE drops ‘uncontrolled’ fraud bombshell involving thousands of foreign students, ‘phantom employees’

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has uncovered a massive fraud scheme involving over 10,000 foreign students connected to suspect employers through the federal STEM Optional Practical Training extension program. The program was meant to allow international students to work temporarily in the US, but it has become an uncontrolled guest worker pipeline with hundreds of thousands of foreign students working in the country. ICE Director Todd Lyons announced the discovery, calling it a deliberate and criminal attack on the American people.