Padmini looks from Brooklyn to Manny with growing incredulity. “You can’t give them what they want. They’ll be able to blackmail you the instant you offer them anything. And then they’ll just terrorize more people and steal more public money! My God—” She laughs a little, wearily and humorlessly. “I just realized. When ICE came to threaten my family, they pretended to be the NYPD. Even ICE doesn’t have the kind of power they do!”
