This appears to be linked to an investigation by India into fraudulent agents in their own country forging documents. They raised the issue with Canada when students who had graduated in Canada and subsequently tried for citizenship were found to have forged documents in their possession and so they shouldn't have been allowed to be in Canada to study at all. (I imagine Canada'll add some sort of verification check for colleges, maybe.) However if this headline is related to that, it's more a group of criminals are exploiting a loophole than anything else. Since India is one of the largest countries by population in the world, any widespread activity there can move the needle anywhere else, yeah.
The students make the case that it's not their fault they came to the country on forged documents. They obviously expected and paid like the documents were valid. If they really thought they were fake, they wouldn't have tried to use them to gain citizenship and it's not fair that they did everything correctly and now risk deportation. It's a bit of rock and a hard place for them. They spent their university years building a life like they wanted and now it can be taken away with little warning. They are not wrong that they did all the things. If there's no mechanism to gatekeep college admissions that's both a new thing to address and not the kids' fault. India and Canada will likely work it out. Worst case scenario they emigrate home and get a job somewhere else using their resume. It's just unfortunate and feels like a tough blow for a bunch of 20-somethings who were executing their plans for their lives.
I will say this may or may not be happening in USA but one of the many downsides of a self centered and incompetent administration is that the current bureaucratic wheels preclude professional and timely investigations into things. I cannot wait for the professionals to return to all the agencies. It'll be rebuilding because of the destructiveness of the current President and his political appointees to all the agencies. But I am so so hopeful as a person and hope one day we can remove this meddling and have a functional country again.
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