Five California Residents Arrested for Taking Exams on Behalf of Chinese Nationals Applying to US Colleges

SACRAMENTO—Five California residents were arrested on the morning of March 12 in connection to helping Chinese nationals cheat on literacy proficiency exams used for entering United States universities. The five individuals used fake Chinese passports to take the exams on behalf of students from China. These students intended to become foreign exchange students in the United States, according to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website. Christopher Kuemmerle, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, told the Los Angeles Times that over 40 students used this scheme to get into highly ranked U.S. colleges. Those colleges include University of California (UC) Los Angeles, UC Irvine, and UC Riverside.

“We have so many students that are honest, that work hard to get into the university of their dreams and yet that spot might be taken by someone who cheats,” Kuemmerle told the Los Angeles Times. Kuemmerle supervises the Los Angeles Document and Benefit Fraud task force, the agency which ran the investigation. Charges included using fake passports and impersonating others to take an English proficiency exam. These exams are often necessary for obtaining a student visa. Four of the five arrests were made in the greater Los Angeles area, with the final arrest made in Stockton. A last defendant is suspected to be residing abroad.

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The Shadow That Haunts Chinese Students in America

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How Beijing’s Invisible Hand Infiltrates Canadian Campuses

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US Prosecutors Probing Facebook’s Data Deals

NEW YORK—U.S. federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook Inc struck with some of the world’s largest technology companies, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, March 13. A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed records from at least two prominent makers of smartphones and other devices, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the requests and without naming the companies. Both companies are among the more than 150, including Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc, and Microsoft Corp, that have entered into partnerships with Facebook for access to the personal information of hundreds of millions of its users, according to the report.

Facebook is facing a slew of lawsuits and regulatory inquiries over its privacy practices, including ongoing investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission and two state agencies in New York. In addition to looking at the data deals, the probes focus on disclosures that the company shared the user data of 87 million people with Cambridge Analytica, a British consulting firm. Facebook said it was cooperating with investigators in multiple federal probes, without addressing the grand jury inquiry specifically. “We’ve provided public testimony, answered questions, and pledged that we will continue to do so,” Facebook said in a statement.

Facebook has defended the data-sharing deals, first reported in December, saying none of the partnerships gave companies access to information without people’s permission. A spokesman for the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, which The New York Times reported is overseeing the inquiry, said he could not confirm or deny the probe.

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>>5678884

I think you miss the larger picture here of China's espionage program, the students they send are not academically inclined, they are merely trained spies. College's do quite a bit of research and development, in that regard this is where they are placed in an effort to send anything they can get back to China.

>>5679014

Agreed, as far as I remember these student come from lower educated families who could not afford, or have a debt of some kind to pay back to the government..which makes them owned.

>>5679014

One more important piece I forgot to add it this is all aided by Dianne Feinstein!

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House GOP Demands Nancy Pelosi Hold Hearings on the Green New Deal

House Republican lawmakers are asking Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold hearings on the Green New Deal. “As the committees to which it has been referred, we have a responsibility to fully understand how the Green New Deal will affect the cost of living and economic mobility of hardworking,” 11 House GOP members wrote to Pelosi on Thursday. Americans. We need to get to the facts, the American people deserve answers,” wrote lawmakers, including Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Rob Bishop of Utah, Kevin Brady of Texas and Greg Walden of Oregon.

Republicans also plan to hold a press conference Thursday to push their case, Axios reported. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is set to attend the press conference, signaling a coordinated effort to keep the Green New Deal at the forefront ahead of the 2020 elections. While the Green New Deal has been embraced by leftmost Democrats and a handful of 2020 presidential hopefuls, Democratic leadership has withheld overt support for the resolution. Moderate Democrats have distanced themselves from the resolution or, like West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, joined with Republicans to reject it altogether.

The Green New Deal calls for aggressive goals of achieving “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions within 10 years, which implies more aggressive policies than cap-and-trade. Republicans worry such policies will raise energy prices and dramatically expand government control of the economy. “Taken together, we fear the Green New Deal would hurt Americans struggling to make ends meet — the very people it purports to help,” Republicans wrote to Pelosi. “Worst of all, it could permanently put the American Dream out of reach for millions of Americans.”

Republicans’ letter comes on news Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is set to bring the Green New Deal to a vote in the last week of March. Senate Democrats are trying to avoid voting on the non-binding resolution and even put forward an alternative bill. Republicans in the Western Caucus, including Bishop, held a public forum on the Green New Deal in late February, and even invited the bill’s sponsor, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wasn’t able to attend. At the event, Bishop ate a hamburger in defiance of the Green New Deal — in reference to Ocasio-Cortez’s bungled Green New Deal rollout FAQ that mentioned getting rid of “farting cows.”

It seems doubtful Pelosi would agree to hold hearings on the Green New Deal. Pelosi referred to the Green New Deal as “the green dream or whatever” after it was introduced in February. Likewise, Pelosi has resisted her party’s calls for votes on Medicare for All and impeachment. Pelosi also remembers the defeat of cap-and-trade in 2010, despite Democratic control of both chambers of Congress.

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