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theunitofcaring:

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inquisitivefeminist:

theunitofcaring:

So I know, like, “abolish the U.S. government” isn’t actually a practical step forward but gosh if I had a button that could do it - 

the government set up a fake university, persuaded international students it was a real university, got thousands to enroll, and then revealed it was a sting and they’ll all be deported with an immigration violation on their visas for enrolling in a university that they should have known was fake. Despite the fact that, in order to make the sting more successful, they got the fake university accredited, so if students did check it would all seem legitimate!

they did this with our tax money!

Holy what the fuck

This is how most federal law enforcement works. They don’t investigate anything, because that’s hard. They set up elaborate sting operations and then entrap people. Numerous “domestic terrorists” they’ve caught were people that undercover agents had to cajole, convince, and persuade to participate in a plot that the agents themselves cooked up, and the agents themselves supplied all the money and materials for. The DEA will also do this for low-level drug dealers. If you’re caught with drugs, they’ll offer you a reduced sentence if you offer to sell drugs to someone else and get them caught too.

They create crime where there was none and then “solve” it.

I read a few articles about this about a month ago and these comments don’t tell the actual story of how things went down and it had nothing to do with tricking the actual students.

But ok

This is tumblr though. Where the meanie government is out to make crime because capitalism.

Tumblr: Where the facts are made up and the source doesn’t matter.

So it’s true that the goal of the sting operation wasn’t to trick the students; the goal was to catch brokers. That doesn’t change that 1,000 students, many of whom thought what they were doing was legal because the school was listed on official government websites as approved and school officials promised them it was legitimate, are getting deported. 

“it had nothing to do with tricking the actual students” is a pretty lame defense. Sure, a thousand people who now can’t pursue careers or lives in this country weren’t the point, they’re just acceptable collateral damage. But you don’t get to quite literally ruin peoples’ lives and then say ‘it had nothing to do with you’. 

Those students were wronged. Catching 20 ‘brokers’ does not justify what was done here. 

…or they could just open the borders and abolish immigration restrictions and let the people in regardless of their enrollment in whatever university, fake or not.

Also sgibbz, get your facts straight, the meanie government is out to make crime because statism