Two Jordanian foreign nationals are in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after an alleged attempt to breach Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia earlier this month.
Now, Fox News is confirming that one of the Jordanians illegally crossed the border on April 8, 2024, in the San Diego sector and was released with a Notice to Appear and that the other was already in the country as a foreign student, raising many questions about why two individuals with very different modes of entry were in communication and decided to attempt entry onto military base together.
After days of inquiry, Fox News obtained additional information from ICE, specifically that the Jordanian foreign student entered the United States on September 11, 2022, and had his foreign student status terminated approximately four months later on January 14, 2023.
Many follow-up questions should be asked of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division, which oversees the foreign student program called the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.
Why was the Jordanian foreign student allowed to wander around the country for over a year? Was HSI actively looking for him? Foreign students have a lot of information on record - from home addresses to financials - and it's all contained in SEVIS, so they are an easier population to locate than random illegal border-crossers.
Was the Jordanian student participating in the controversial Optional Practical Training program, which allows foreign students to obtain employment for up to three years beyond graduation? If so, for which employer was he allegedly working, and did he actually show up to work? The student told the military base that he was associated with Amazon, which raises the question of whether he also reported such employment to HSI in OPT paperwork.
There remains significant fraud within the foreign student program and when something truly horrific happens at the hands of foreign student, it will be HSI that will be called before Congress to answer why they failed to protect the nation.
https://cis.org/Feere/Questions-about-Foreign-Student-Attempting-Breach-Marine-Corps-Base-Quantico
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