南開大學校友王新燕因GRE代考在美被捕入獄

05-19

南開大學08級應用物理專業的王新燕同學2017年因為做槍手替人代考GRE和托福而被捕入獄，當時上了新聞。沒想到這周三地區巡迴法庭法官Indira Talwani宣判緩刑一年以後，王新燕走出法庭的時候當場就被移民局 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

逮捕囚禁，對此Talwani法官表示不滿。

https://mobile.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/04/27/world/asia/27reuters-usa-education-crime.html

標題圖片是負責此案的檢察官Andrew Lelling, 下面是紐約時報New York Time部分新聞的內容:

U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling in a statement late Thursday said the ICE agents who took Xinyan Wang, 27, into custody outside Bostons federal courthouse were "doing their jobs: enforcing federal law."

The arrest occurred after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday sentenced Wang to 12 months of probation for using a fake Chinese passport to take a graduate school entrance exam for another Chinese national.

「In January, Wang pleaded guilty to charges she used a counterfeit Chinese passport and a bogus visa to pose as someone else to take a Graduate Record Exam, or GRE, in October.

Wang was paid to take the GRE or the TOEFL, the English-language exam used to assess foreign applicants, five other times under assumed names, according to court papers.

Wang was previously a graduate student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, but after her advisers laboratorys funding ran out, she enrolled in a community college to keep her student visa, according to her lawyer, Syrie Fried.

She has said that Wang is now seeking asylum as she fears reprisal from the people who made the documents she used.」

簡述一下過程，王新燕同學2012年從南開畢業以後赴美到賓州的Lehigh大學讀博士，2015或者2016年因為導師沒有經費而轉學到社區學院Lehigh Carbon Community College維持學生簽證身份，之後六次替人代考GRE或者TOEFL而被捕. 以下內容來自波士頓環球報的報道：

US Attorney supports ICE arrest of Chinese immigrant in federal court - The Boston Globe

「Wang was a graduate student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania working on a fiber optics project that was to be the subject of her dissertation when her adviser』s lab ran out of funding in 2015 or 2016, court documents said. This, the documents said, essentially 「put an end to the project on which her PhD was to be based . . . and her graduate education just fell apart.」

She left graduate school in 2016 but didn』t want to leave the country, so she enrolled in a nearby community college in order to keep her student visa, court documents said. But she didn』t have a job. Her $20,000 annual graduate assistantship ended with her graduate education.

So she began taking graduate school entrance exams, posing as other people, for money, court documents said.」

2017年10月王新燕被捕，2018年1月認罪，隨後她以擔心被製造假護照和簽證的人迫害為理由申請難民身份避難美國，4月25日出庭受審，審判結束後走出法庭即被移民局逮捕。

人生很多時候需要做出正確的選擇，導師沒有經費換學校是正確選擇，實在不行先回國也可以。但是選擇替人代考掙錢而違背美國法律就是錯誤選擇，被捕之後選擇申請難民身份就是錯上加錯了，赴美求學並不是一條不歸路，走不通的時候還是可以回家的。