{"id":21359,"date":"2019-04-12T07:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21359"},"modified":"2019-04-12T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:16:44","slug":"ice-has-angered-the-facebook-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/12\/ice-has-angered-the-facebook-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Has Angered the Facebook!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In one of the most ridiculous immigration stories in recent memory, Britain\u2019s The Guardian<\/a><\/em> has run a piece officiously chastising U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for\u2026wait for it\u2026breaking Facebook\u2019s<\/a> rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did this egregious violation come to pass? ICE<\/a> lied about its identity in order to conduct a sting operation: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

F-1 nonimmigrant status allows foreign students to come to\nthe U.S. temporarily to study English, earn a degree, and gain practical\nexperience through a year of employment with an American company. But F-1\nstudents are required to take 12 credits worth of classes and make satisfactory\nprogress toward their intended degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, foreign students who can\u2019t get into American\nuniversities, can\u2019t afford their tuition or can\u2019t pass their courses often go\nlooking for a cheap, easy way to remain in F-1 status. And over the last few\ndecades there have been a number of fly-by-night educational institutions more\nthan happy to assist such students in creating the illusion of complying with\nF-1 visa requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting in 2015, ICE set up a sham university designed to catch foreign students looking to fraudulently obtain or extend F-1 student nonimmigrant status. And they advertised it using a medium popular among college age people: Facebook. The sting worked, and ICE reeled in over 160 criminals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, Facebook seemed to imply that the students ensnared in ICE\u2019s sting were victims, rather than bad actors who deliberately set out to associate themselves with a bogus university in order to break U.S. immigration laws. A Facebook representative quoted in The Guardian\u2019s <\/em>story pompously proclaimed, \u201cLaw enforcement authorities, like everyone else, are required to use their real names on Facebook and we make this policy clear on our public-facing Law Enforcement Guidelines page. Operating fake accounts is not allowed, and we will act on any violating accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s nice that the social media giant seems so concerned about transparency. But here\u2019s the thing, The Guardian\u2019s<\/em> story is just an ongoing part of the media\u2019s tendency<\/a> to make folk heroes<\/a>\u00a0 out of villains whenever it reports on immigration. Despite veiled suggestions to the contrary, ICE\u2019s Facebook sting operation appears to have been conducted in full accordance with all of the relevant civil rights laws. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As early as 1969, the Supreme Court held in Frazier v. Cupp<\/a><\/em> that law enforcement officers may intentionally deceive suspects while conducting a criminal investigation. More recently, the U.S. District Court of New Jersey held in U.S. v. Gatson<\/a><\/em> that police may set up fake social media accounts, without a warrant, when investigating crimes. The fact is, bad guys don\u2019t often show up at police stations and confess their evil deeds, that\u2019s why detective work is necessary in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s really disturbing about this case isn\u2019t ICE\u2019s actions\n\u2013 the agency was simply exercising its lawful authority in order to protect the\nAmerican public from immigration fraud \u2013 it\u2019s the fact that Facebook doesn\u2019t\nappear to be the least bit concerned that foreign students were using their\nplatform to facilitate immigration fraud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Americans who use Facebook should be wondering why Mark\nZuckerberg\u2019s team of techno whiz kids more interested in protecting immigration\nfraudsters from ICE than they are in protecting the U.S. from immigration\nscams?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one of the most ridiculous immigration stories in recent memory, Britain\u2019s The Guardian has run a piece officiously chastising U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for\u2026wait for it\u2026breaking Facebook\u2019s rules. How did this egregious violation come to pass? ICE lied about its identity in order to conduct a sting operation: F-1 nonimmigrant status allows<\/p>\n

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