Eleven Egyptian students disappear in US with Student Visas
So much for student visas being safe and a direct harm to the United States Homeland Security. Eleven Egyptian students are missing. Gone without a trace as they failed to show up to Montana State.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Immigration agents and the FBI are looking for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States on valid student visas, then failed to show up at a university in Montana, authorities said. The FBI on Saturday issued a nationwide alert to law enforcement agencies. Included were the students’ names, ages, passport numbers and photographs.
Although these students may not be terrorists, they have broken the law and should be deported immediately. The sole purpose of why they were to come to the US was to attend college and they never showed. Obviously, in a post 9-11 world we best use caution first and ask questions later.
They were part of an all-male group of 17 students that landed July 29 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Six of them arrived later at Montana State University as part of an exchange program; the other 11 did not, prompting school officials to contact the government.
The students were identified as:
- El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed Ibrahim, 20
- Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed El Dessouki, 21 (FOUND)
- Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali El Bahnasawi, 20
- Mohamed Ragab Mohamed Abd Alla, 22
- Ahmed Refaat Saad El Moghazi El Laket, 19
- Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou El Ela, 21
- Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed El Moghazy, 20
- Ebrahim Mabrouk Moustafa Abdou, 22
- Moustafa Wagdy Moustafa El Gafary, 18
- Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, 20
- Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, 17
UPDATE: One Of 11 Egyptian Students In Custody
(CBS/AP) U.S. officials said Wednesday that one of the 11 Egyptian students who went missing after arriving in the United States last month is now in federal custody. He was arrested in Minneapolis by Customs Enforcement and FBI agents and is being questioned.
The FBI identified him as 21-year-old Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed El-Dessouki. He was taken into custody on an administrative immigration violation as an out-of-status student. The arrest occurred without incident, the FBI said in a statement.
UPDATE: All missing Egyptian students in custody
WASHINGTON – The last two of the 11 Egyptian exchange students who failed to show up at their college program were apprehended Sunday in Richmond, Va., customs officials said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Mohamed Saleh Ahmed Maray, 20, and Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad El Shenawy, 17, at an apartment building in Richmond on Sunday night. Virginia State Police and the Richmond Police helped locate the students.
Last Wednesday, one of the Egyptian students was arrested in Minneapolis and two were detained in Manville, N.J. On Thursday, two were arrested in Dundalk, Md., and one was arrested at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Three more were arrested Friday in Des Moines, Iowa.
The students were to attend a monthlong program at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont. A group of 17 students arrived in New York on July 29. Six reported to Bozeman on time.
(Yahoo News)