On a sticky summer’s day in July, a blue-and-white handbag stuffed with cash was shoved into Melanie’s* hands.
It had been given to her by a 36-year-old Chinese woman as she was rushed into surgery for a C-section.
Melanie had been called to the main hospital on the remote island of Saipan to translate for the woman, who had travelled alone from China to give birth in the US territory, automatically giving her baby US citizenship.
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