behalf. reporter: immigration and customs enforcement charged him with conspiracy to commit immigration fraud. he pleaded not guilt. federal agents served multiple warrants across southern california. some will be charged, others deported. we don t know the motive behind these individuals or what their intent was on coming to the united states. obviously, it wasn t to attend school. reporter: more than 100 students from saudi arabia, kuwait, qatar, lebanon, turkey and the united arab emirates paid him over $100,000 to take exams and writing proficiency tests. passing grades let arab nationals keep their student visas current so they could remain in the u.s. at one point higgins got so busy he hired other americans and got them fake ids to get past university test monitors. now, higgins doesn t look like an arab student, but better yet, jon, one of the students that he