The "campus" was an office at a business park in a Detroit suburb.The indictment, filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, said the students knew the scheme was illegal.Prosecutors say the spurious university was being used as a "pay to stay" scheme - allowing people who entered the country legally as students to extend their stay and work by transferring to it.A total of 130 students - including 129 from India - were arrested on Wednesday and charged with civil immigration charges, the Detroit Free Press reported.The students face possible deportation if convicted.Separately, eight people who allegedly acted as recruiters were charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and "harbouring aliens for profit".The Indian government said the students could have been tricked into enrolling. It also had a fake Facebook page with a calendar of events.But court papers released last week showed that the employees of the University of Farmington were undercover agents for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).

All rights reserved. The sting operation came complete with a fake university website Announcement Goes ViralMauritius Oil Spill in the Indian Ocean: Clean-up Ops in Full SwingCNN name, logo and all associated elements ® and © 2020 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. US fake university: India anger after students ... - BBC News "We have urged the US side to share full details and regular updates of the students with the government, to release them from detention at the earliest and not to resort to deportation against their will," MEA added.Some immigration advocates in the US also believe innocent foreigners were trapped by the government.Ravi Mannam, an immigration attorney in Atlanta, told the Detroit Free Press that the sting "kind of hooked these students by promising them credits for their previous master's programmes".Meanwhile a telephone hotline for worried relatives of those being held has been set up at the Indian embassy in Washington, the Times of India reported.The US embassy in Delhi confirmed it had received the note of protest but made no further statement.US immigration authorities have resorted to increasingly tough enforcement tactics in recent years.Over the past two years, the Trump administration has further clamped down on undocumented migrants and visa overstayers.In two massive operations last year, ICE agents detained 146 people at a meat supplier in Ohio and another 150 at a trailer manufacturer in Texas.The US president fuels a fringe idea, echoing his past baseless claims about Barack Obama's origins.
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"Our concern over the dignity and wellbeing of the detained students and the need for immediate consular access for Indian officials to the detainees was reiterated," the ministry said.The fake university was set up in 2015 to try to catch foreign nationals who had initially travelled to the US on student visas and wanted to stay in the country, US media reported.A website for the University of Farmington showed pictures of students in classes and libraries, or relaxing around a grassy campus.It advertised tuition for undergraduates at $8,500 (£6,500) a year and $11,000 a year for graduate students. Fake university News - Find Fake university latest News and Headlines today along with Fake university Photos and Videos at HindustanTimes.com. The website used stock images of students working These are external links and will open in a new window © Copyright Network18 Media and Investments Ltd 2020.