We stay quiet, leaving this worst-case scenario unexplored. Arulpragasam isn’t much of a moper, though, and soon she is rascally chuckling. She still has one or two friends with influence, she says, and the other day she sent a text to Rihanna. Arulpragasam wanted to know if, in a pinch, her friend would help get her over the border. Perhaps via tunnel, “some weird El Chapo move” from Mexico. Or maybe in the boot of a car? The reply came back quickly. “Yeah bitch,” Rihanna wrote, “you know I would.”