I'm genuinely puzzled as to what crime these students had supposedly committed. ICE had not told these students that the university was fake. They marketed it as a legitimate and accredited university, and even got other governmental agencies to vouch for this fake university:
> Attorneys for the students arrested said they were unfairly trapped by the U.S. government since the Department of Homeland Security had said on its website that the university was legitimate. An accreditation agency that was working with the U.S. on its sting operation also listed the university as legitimate.
It sounds like most of the students were specifically looking to enroll in an accredited university, so that they can be in compliance with the law. And they would have succeeded in that as well, if not for ICE deceiving them into thinking that the university was accredited, when it actually wasn't. How is this not entrapment?
"entrapment is a practice whereby a law enforcement agent or agent of the state induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit"
> Attorneys for the students arrested said they were unfairly trapped by the U.S. government since the Department of Homeland Security had said on its website that the university was legitimate. An accreditation agency that was working with the U.S. on its sting operation also listed the university as legitimate.
It sounds like most of the students were specifically looking to enroll in an accredited university, so that they can be in compliance with the law. And they would have succeeded in that as well, if not for ICE deceiving them into thinking that the university was accredited, when it actually wasn't. How is this not entrapment?
"entrapment is a practice whereby a law enforcement agent or agent of the state induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely or unwilling to commit"