Clamping Down on Student-Visa Fraud

Intensified enforcement seeks to catch terrorists but worries educators

By MICHAEL ARNONE

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's affidavit sets the scene: In a Miami hotel room this past March, Rafael Diaz and James B. Holderman chatted with a Russian mobster. On the table between them lay a bag with more than $400,000, the first major payoff after nine months of secret...

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