ICE's Fake University: A Sting, not Entrapment
But ongoing, unglamorous work to address foreign student violators still isn't happening
By Dan Cadman on December 3, 2019
Not long ago, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it was shutting down a sting operation it had surreptitiously run that involved setting up a fake "university" — a hollow shell with no classrooms, no classes or identifiable curricula, and no professors. It was pretty much nothing more than an online presence and a statement that "graduates" would receive degrees, and that it was authorized to accept foreign students.
When ICE shut down the university, it went after the aliens who, looking for a way to pose as foreign students while in fact doing other things like working illegally, had registered at the university rather than attend accredited institutions where they would have been expected to actually study and learn before being granted a degree. Apparently about 250 aliens were taken into custody; not a huge number, but not shabby either. (Eight recruiters have also been convicted on criminal charges.)
https://cis.org/Cadman/ICEs-Fake-University-Sting-not-Entrapment
