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While he stood lookout, Lopez picked the lock on a door, entered the office, turned on a small desk lamp, and then quickly rummaged through a pile of papers on a desk and searched a filing cabinet. ¶She found the folder she was looking for, copied down a name and phone number on a scrap of paper, glanced around to make sure she hadn't left a mess, and hurried back out of the office to her own room in the shelter. ¶Then she braced herself, waitingfor the security guard to show up and demand his promised night of sex. It's hard to imagine visiting foreign businesspeople, entertainers, and just plain tourists giving blood samples in return for short-term visas, but some people advocate just that as the only way to bar entry to people who won't admit they carry HIV.
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It's 1992. Lou Dobbs is still just a CNN business-news honcho. He hasn't gone off to launch space.com or made hisre-entry to Ted Turner's network for his populist anti-immigration phase. But even then, 15 years ago, Dobbs might have gone ballistic if he'd seen what Michelle Lopez was up to. ¶She was an illegal immigrant committing a crime. ¶ It was after dark, and the office at the Bronx homeless shelter Lopez was breaking into was empty. Lopez had an accessory-a security guard who agreed to look the other way in exchange for promised sexual favors. While he stood lookout, Lopez picked the lock on a door, entered the office, turned on a small desk lamp, and then quickly rummaged through a pile of papers on a desk and searched a filing cabinet. ¶She found the folder she was looking for, copied down a name and phone number on a scrap of paper, glanced around to make sure she hadn't left a mess, and hurried back out of the office to her own room in the shelter. ¶Then she brace...
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