True Patriot Love - May 21, 2026


International Student Investigations ｜ Shocking Low Numbers #TPLMedia

Hosted by
Shara Micucci Mike Wixson
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Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

155.4

Word count

197

Sentence count

12

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

sentences flagged


Summary

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In this episode, we talk about the problems faced by the government when it comes to identifying, tracking, and reporting non-compliant international students. We also discuss the new legislation that was passed in 2017, which could have a major impact on the way schools and colleges operate.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 I think they said that only 2.6% of flagged international students were investigated.
00:00:06.760 Just 2.6%.
00:00:08.020 Yeah, there's 153,000 students that were flagged.
00:00:11.480 153,000 non-compliant, potentially.
00:00:13.260 So they had the resources, apparently, to only investigate 4,000. 0.73
00:00:17.020 And that's just ridiculous.
00:00:18.240 There is now, I was just looking before our talk today, of the Immigration and Refugee
00:00:23.460 Protection Act, the regulations to the Act, and there's Section 222.1, it talks about
00:00:31.140 some power. So essentially, you know, within 10 days of the minister inquiring at a designated
00:00:38.660 learning institution, so that's all the universities and community colleges,
00:00:42.980 within 10 days the college has to confirm whether the student has actually been accepted. And then
00:00:48.900 within 60 days of the minister inquiring they have to the college or university has to explain the
00:00:56.180 enrollment status of each of the foreign nationals that have been accepted and then there's sort of
00:01:00.820 a back and forth and then the end result is that they can suspend the designated learning institution
00:01:06.660 for up to 12 months if they fail fail fail so this is a real like warning to the schools like
00:01:12.980 like you better be tracking and you better be reporting.