Zed A. Shaw, Painter

ICE set up a fake university in Michigan as a sting to catch immigration fraud. Ok, so the fraud they were trying to catch is people going to fake universities by creating a fake university. But, how they did this actually made the university seem real and legit:

1. They registered a real university with the state of michigan. 2. They got it accredited. 3. They took money from the students. 4. They *listed it on the ICE website saying it was real*. 5. They had classes listed, full website, and students even with through SEVIS and visas.

The building wasn't real, but how is a guy in India or even New York supposed to know that? They probably just want a low cost university, and this basically was a real university. ICE worked with ACCSC to get it fraudulently accredited, took money, and listed it...sooooooo.

The claim ICE is making is basically, "You should have known this university that was officially accredited, had a legit website, and which we SAID was legit, was not legit at all." I don't think even I could have figured that out if I saw all of that evidence.

Additionally, these people probably would have never committed this "crime" (applying to an accredited approved school is not a crime) without all this work enticing them from ICE, which makes it entrapment, but they can't use that defense because they're foreign.

Now, the real insane kicker of this story is, ICE was apparently taking $11k from these people and then....kept it all. Like, from reading this they arrested 130 people, but collected from 600, so ICE either stole 1.43 or 6.6 million dollars from poor framers in India.

But, that money was collected using fraud, which means that ICE isn't allowed to keep it and I'm pretty damn sure if you're breaking the law to catch someone then your case is fucked. At a minimum that's embezzling or fraud or something. ICE's defense might be "drug seizure".