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By Daniel Baxter |
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May 27, 2010 - The
former owners of a San Diego-area flight training school and the school
itself pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges stemming from an
investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into
allegations the school committed visa fraud and hired unauthorized
foreign students as flight instructors.
Andrew Burr, 42,
of
Anglo American
Aviation, Inc., the flight school which formerly operated out of
Gillespie Field in |
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SEVIS is a federal
government database used to maintain and track foreign students enrolled
at academic and vocational schools in the
"It's abundantly
clear why allegations of visa fraud by flight school operators would
raise a red flag," said Joe Garcia, acting special agent in charge for
the ICE Office of Investigations in According to ICE investigators, from August 2007 through October 2007, school officials issued visa documents in SEVIS for more than 100 foreign students. That despite the fact the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had revoked the school's certification to train commercial pilots. Of that group, ICE investigators identified 53 foreign students who had entered the country using documents they obtained from Anglo-American Aviation. |
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