{"id":2303,"date":"2008-03-24T05:08:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T10:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2008-03-21T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T22:13:11","slug":"look-at-the-bright-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"Look At The Bright Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>NYTimes<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/21\/nyregion\/21immigrant.html?_r=2&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">reports on the use of sexual blackmail<\/a> in the Citizenship and Immigration Services division of the Homeland Security department.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The calls from the agent started three days later. He hinted, she said, at his power to derail her life and deport her relatives, alluding to a brush she had with the law before her marriage. He summoned her to a private meeting. And at noon on Dec. 21, in a parked car on Queens Boulevard, he named his price \u2014 not realizing that she was recording everything on the cellphone in her purse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want sex,\u201d he said on the recording. \u201cOne or two times. That\u2019s all. You get your green card. You won\u2019t have to see me anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She reluctantly agreed to a future meeting. But when she tried to leave his car, he demanded oral sex \u201cnow,\u201d to \u201cknow that you\u2019re serious.\u201d And despite her protests, she said, he got his way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The agent is being prosecuted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No one knows how widespread sexual blackmail is, but the case echoes other instances of sexual coercion that have surfaced in recent years, including agents criminally charged in Atlanta, Miami and Santa Ana, Calif. And it raises broader questions about the system\u2019s vulnerability to corruption at a time when millions of noncitizens live in a kind of legal no-man\u2019s land, increasingly fearful of seeking the law\u2019s protection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The upside?\u00a0 When the Dems ram single-payer healthcare down our throats, these same people will be running the healthcare system!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, that&#8217;s a downside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYTimes reports on the use of sexual blackmail in the Citizenship and Immigration Services division of the Homeland Security department. The calls from the agent started three days later. He hinted, she said, at his power to derail her life and deport her relatives, alluding to a brush she had with the law before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}