TANA working for Farmington Students
New York, January 30th: It is very disturbing to see these students arrested, said Jay Talluri, TANA Executive Vice President on Wednesday on the fate of students of University of Farmington in Michigan.
Jay Talluri along with TANA representatives Raja Kasukurthi and Satish Palukuri met with Sandeep Chakravarthy, Indian Consulate General in New York and requested to talk to Indian Ambassador and act on it.
Sandeep Chakravarthy received the memorandum submitted by TANA and promised to talk to the Indian Ambassador to take immediate action and make request to USCIS authorities. He also promised to talk to all the appropriate people to take necessary actions.
As per USCIS, eight student recruiters were charged with participating in a conspiracy to help at least 600 foreign citizens stay in the U.S. illegally. Federal agents started investigating in to University of Farmington in 2015 but intensified a month ago as part of President Donald Trump's plan for a broader crackdown on illegal immigration.
Those charged include:
' Bharath Kakireddy, 29, of Lake Mary, Florida.
' Aswanth Nune, 26, of Atlanta.
' Suresh Reddy Kandala, 31, of Culpeper, Virginia.
' Phanideep Karnati, 35, of Louisville, Kentucky.
' Prem Kumar Rampeesa, 26, of Charlotte, North Carolina.
' Santosh Reddy Sama, 28, of Fremont, California.
' Avinash Thakkallapally, 28, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
' Naveen Prathipati, 29, of Dallas.
'These suspects aided hundreds of foreign nationals to remain in the United States illegally by helping to portray them as students, which they most certainly were not,' said Steve Francis, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations office in Detroit.
News Posted: 30 January, 2019
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