“The arrests we highlight today are just the beginning and should serve as a warning,” acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tony Pham said at a press conference. But it has raised concerns about abuse, and ICE says it arrested 15 non-immigrant students who claimed to be employed by companies that don’t exist. ICE will seek to remove them from the country, and they’ve been informed their work permits will be revoked. The remaining few hundred have work permits that expire so soon that USCIS isn’t even issuing a letter, they simply won’t renew their work permits. He also suggested that employers, as well as immigrants, had abused the program for cheap labor.

Source: Fox News October 21, 2020 21:33 UTC