As Twitchy reported, ICE, while working under the Obama administration, set up a fake university as part of a sting operation “designed to identify recruiters and entities engaged in immigration fraud.” The Detroit Free Press reported that the university “was not staffed with instructors/educators, it had no curriculum, no actual classes.”
It sounds sneaky, it is sneaky, and The Resurgent’s Erick Erickson says it almost makes him sympathetic to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her desire to abolish ICE entirely.
Kinda makes me sympathetic to @aoc’s abolish ICE argument. This is really outrageous. https://t.co/jto1Cyjin9
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 27, 2019
It does sound a little outrageous, but then again, it was a sting operation, and the students seemed to know what they were paying for.
My understanding is that the students knew the university was fake and were paying small amounts of money to illegitimately keep their student visas active by being fake-enrolled. Adds critical context.
— Inez Stepman (@InezFeltscher) November 27, 2019
Oh that does. Thanks.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 27, 2019
That is some critical context we haven’t seen reported.
Well, as Paul Harvey would say, there's a "rest of the story" which includes full knowledge aforethought by the "students" that there were no teachers, no classes, no obligations, just a paper mill.
— PreviouslyKnownAsSomeoneElse (@DryHumorDryBeef) November 27, 2019
Somethings Lis is not telling her followers.
This "school" had no teachers, classes, curriculum, or a real campus of any kind. The people who enrolled in it were well aware it was a bogus university.
But what's it matter after 27k retweets pic.twitter.com/OIRW7H9Ewa
— Jason Hopkins (@thejasonhopkins) November 27, 2019
Lis Power is the director of media intelligence for Media Matters, by the way.
It is an outrage, @EWErickson, but not in the direction you think.
— Jonathan McGuire (@jgmcguire68) November 27, 2019
Never go full AOC, Erick ? pic.twitter.com/Y68PXLnCXw
— (((L.N. Smithee))) (@LNSmithee) November 27, 2019
This is literally busting #immigration fraud, and @EWErickson opposes it… Thank you, @ICEgov, for tracking down and arresting #IllegalAliens who commit fraud.
— God Bless Texas (@GHalv) November 27, 2019
Busting fraud "outrageous"… Welcome to woke @EWErickson. Sad.
— God Bless Texas (@GHalv) November 27, 2019
do you often register for a school with no classes and no teachers?
— ??Thomas McCraw #KAG (@dgsixkado) November 27, 2019
They were not victims. They were trying to cheat the system and got busted. Good riddance.
— Germanic (@Scottho89953417) November 27, 2019
Yes, it was a sting operation, but the fact that it targeted immigrants with student visas seems to make people more sympathetic. What do you think? Cruel or clever?
And no, we certainly can’t get on board with AOC’s call to abolish ICE. Just no.
Related:
‘OH MY GOD’: Alyssa Milano beside herself after news of ICE’s sting operation, gets notified when it started https://t.co/B8QWk3cyl9
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 27, 2019
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