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On the opposite wall of the guest room above her sewing machine, a series of metal sculptures she knitted with copper and silver hangs alongside cloth dolls and purses.

It shows a bright white room full of prisoners hunched over sewing machines as Shirley sings the praises of its “pretty amazing” system.

“Simon Says reminds me of why I love nightlife, and it’s definitely an incentive to pull out my sewing machine,” Arvizu says.

“Mostly women sit there at sewing machines all day doing very, very tedious work. ... If this is what he thinks these tariffs will do, it’s not going to work that way.”

He and his staff responded by finding a local tailor and a second-hand sewing machine, and establishing a workshop right inside the rehab facility — using spandex instead of the usual material.