This article is absolutely fucking insane. ICE created a fake school to fool foreign students into getting student visa under false pretenses in order to track foreign student visa brokers. A Chinese legal immigrant on a student visa wanted to become a citizen, but a Pentagon program called MAVNI for non-citizen recruits with highly sought after language and medical skills that would have enabled him to join was temporarily suspended, so he unknowingly enrolled in the fake school to extend his student visa, paying them $8K. When the program was reinstated he enlisted, which was perfectly legal based on his continuous presence in the US. However since he didn’t try to attend the fake classes at the fake school, because he was in basic training, ICE decided to go after him. ICE ignored General Mattis’ explicit instruction not to go after non-citizen veterans and soldiers, arguing that Mattis really only meant that they shouldn’t go after DREAMers who came here illegally (an absurd argument by any measure.) ICE is now trying to deport the soldier, and as the cherry on top of this fuckery never gave him back the $8K he paid to enroll in their fake ass entrapment school.

ICE is off the goddamned rails.