WP1 Draft #1. Two Letters To The Editor And One Reflection. Education

WP1 Draft #1
Dear Antonia Noori Farzan,
I go by the name Lisa, and I am an ardent and regular reader of The Washington Post. The main reason I am writing this letter is to applaud you in your article titled “ICE set up a fake university. Hundreds enrolled, not realizing it was a sting operation” and make it known that I support your views.
The elaborate sting operation set up by the ICE is beneficial for society as a whole because it is a brazen and shrewd way to catch students who are willing to go against the law to stay in the country, and recruiters who are willing to falsify documents to help them do so. For international students, the University of Farmington served as a way to circumvent immigration laws where in exchange for their “tuition fees,” they would obtain false documentation of their student status.
The ICE did an excellent job by arresting the so-called students and the recruiters who falsified numerous records including transcripts that the students would use to verify their progress and maintain their visas. These recruiters aided hundred if not thousands of foreign nationals stay in the United States illegally under the pretense for being students and disregarding the threat it poses to the country.
As a result of the sting, some “students” might be facing deportation which is a much-deserved consequence of attempting to subvert immigration law. The ICE should run more sting operations to curb transnational crimes, ensure that no immigrant is illegally in the country, and guarantee the safety of inhabitants in America.
WP1 Draft #2
Dear Antonia Noori Farzan,
My name is Zhangmir, and I wish to bring to your attention that I disagree with the content of your article titled “ICE set up a fake university. Hundreds enrolled, not realizing it was a sting operation.” I do not think that the fake university set up by the ICE was a good strategy, especially for international students. The ICEs counterfeit university baited existing international students on legitimate visas to transfer to their fake school.
In their website, the University of Farmington advertised reasonable tuition, flexible class schedules, and an innovative STEM curriculum. This was enough to draw the attention of many students who truly had the desire to further their education and if the university was on the list of acceptable institutions on the Homeland Security website (as stated in your article), how can these students be prosecuted?
I think that the move made by the ICE was deceptive because some of the students did not come to the USA for a prior campus tour where they could determine if the university was real or not. Additionally, when the students arrived at the University of...