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by olliej 2402 days ago
No, the students wanted to go to a US university - a reasonable thing to do, because US degrees are often more valuable than local ones.

So they went to the accreditation agency to get a list of universities to apply to.

They applied to those universities.

They got accepted by the fraudulent university.

The got their visas - after following all of the rules that they were meant to.

They arrived in the country.

They paid their fees to the university.

Once ICE got the money, they arrested all the victims of this fraud, and deported them so that it would become essentially impossible to get back the money ICE fraudulently stole from them.

What part of this is not

* fraud?

* entrapment

* theft

Especially now that the victims will have to check the “I have been deported from the US” box forever, and that alone is grounds to be rejected entry. So even if they do get the money ICE stole back, they are unlikely to ever be able to get a job for an American owned company, or that requires travel to America.

I want you to go through these steps and tell me which step taken by the victims was wrong, because you seem to be saying that the victims were committing fraud and it seems you must know something not in the article.