美國政府竟然開假大學騙留學生！收了你的錢，再告你違法
Undercover US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been operating a fake university designed to lure in immigrants seeking to obtain student visas fraudulently — but the students are claiming they are the ones who have been deceived.
美國移民和海關執法局祕密機構一直在開辦一所假大學，目的是要誘騙那些想要非法獲取學生簽證的移民，但這些學生聲稱他們纔是受害者。
ICE has arrested about 250 students at the University of Farmington in Farmington Hills, Michigan, for violating the terms of their visas, which mandate that they be enrolled full-time at a federAlly accredited educational institution while they complete their studies, an ICE spokesperson said.
一位美國移民海關執法局的發言人說，該部門在密歇根州法明頓山的法明頓大學因違反簽證條款逮捕了約250名學生，簽證條款規定他們求學期間必須在聯邦政府認可的教育機構註冊成爲全日制學生。
The University of Farmington, which ICE agents opened in 2015 to weed out fraudsters, did not qualify because it wasn’t a real educational institution:
2015年美國移民海關執法局爲了掃除詐騙犯開辦了法明頓大學，這所大學沒有資質，因爲它並非真正的教育機構。
Although ICE advertised the university as offering graduate STEM courses, it did not have any teachers, curriculum, classes, or other educational activities.
雖然美國移民海關執法局宣傳該大學開設研究生STEM課程，但卻沒有教師、課程、班級或其他教學活動。
Its primary selling point, prosecutors say, is a ticket to an F-1 student visa — at the cost of $2,500 per quarter for graduate programs, plus an average $1,000 per month in fees, according to the Detroit Free Press.
據《底特律自由新聞》報道，檢察官說它的主要賣點是能提供F-1學生簽證，研究生課程一季度學費爲2,500美元，其他費用平均每月1,000美元。
But at a time when ICE is facing increased scrutiny and some have even called to abolish the agency entirely, the news of this latest fake university sparked outrage.
但美國移民海關執法局正面對多項審查，有些人甚至呼籲完全廢除這一機構，最近這個假大學的消息引起了民憤。
Whether the fake universities have actually been effective in weeding out fraud, however, is up for debate. Attorneys for the students affected say that these operations are entrapment, designed to trick unknowing international students into paying thousands of dollars to a university, while having no way of knowing that their actions are illegal.
但這所假大學是否真的有效掃除了欺詐依然值得探討。受牽連的學生的辯護律師說這是釣魚執法，目的是要誘騙不知情的留學生向大學支付數千美元，但他們根本不知道自己的行爲是違法的。
It’s also not immediately clear how ICE has been using what could amount to millions of dollars in tuition and fees that students paid to the university.
尚不清楚學生向大學繳納的數百萬美元學費和其他費用美國移民海關執法局是如何使用的。
