Flight School In El Cajon California Under Investigation
January 9, 2008
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The wings of an El Cajon flight school are clipped for now, as it goes under the microscope of a federal agency. Immigrantion and Customs Enforcement agents are investigating Anglo-American Flight School.
It may have been sloppy record keeping which caused ICE agents to swarm the offices of Anglo-American Flight School at Gillespie Field in El Cajon. Dozens of agents plowed through paperwork in what ICE officials would only call a criminal investigation.
“It’s focusing on technical violations of immigration rules that allow schools such as these to provide documents to foreigners for permission to come to the United States as students. If there was some sort of technical violation, obviously we want to deal with it, we will correct it,” Anglo-American Flight School attorney Jeremy Warren said.
Sources tell News 8 that agents specifically seized flight and repair logs. Investigators are also apparently looking closely at I-20 forms, which foreign students fill out regarding their schooling plans, including tuition and residency costs.
Since 9/11, it’s no secret the government has been tightening up on flight schools around the country amid concerns of potential security breaches.
“These are people who have never been in trouble with the law before, and they intend to get through this and I think at the end of the day, everyone will be satisfied,” Warren said.
SD Flight Training International owner Phil Thalheimer says ICE spot checks used to make him jittery, but not anymore.
“It’s really important, and it’s an added burden, but we took the responsibility of having international students here,” Thalheimer said. “With that responsibility and that benefit comes this type of enforcement.”
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