[dragonwriter]

> There are only two conditions for entrapment - government inducement of the crime, and the defendant's lack of predisposition to engage in the criminal conduct. And I think this qualifies on both counts.

Since the students are not charged with a crime, I'm not sure how either prong of the entrapment test could be met. There's literally no crime at issue in the students cases, which are non-criminal immigration cases.

> the government pushed this visa mill on them indirectly, via the brokers

The brokers are the only ones charged with crimes, though.

> Had these brokers not reached out to these students, it's unlikely that they would have sought out the same illegal method to enter the country.

Which, insofar as its true, may be a good argument against a lifetime ban (which is a possible penalty in the students' cases, so not completely irrelevant), but not so much against revoking the visas.