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Ben Fox: Nancy Vasquez

ben fox: Luis Alonso Lugo / The Associated Press By Luis Alonso Lugo And Ben Fox The Associated Press Mon., May 29, 2017 WASHINGTON Nancy Vasquez left the turmoil in her native El Salvador behind and moved to the U.S., where she was able to support her family, buy a house and start a food-truck business catering to workers on the outskirts of Washington thanks to a temporary residency permit that has lasted for nearly 20 years, according to Toronto Star. But the seemingly stable life that Vasquez and several hundred thousand others have built under that legal residency program now appears to be on shaky ground. Vasquez said she is thinking about how she would sell her property and move back home. Immigrants and their supporters fear U.S. President Donald Trump's skepticism about immigration means he will take a harder line than his predecessors on a program that began as a humanitarian gesture to temporarily defer deportations of people from countries that were considered too fragile to take them back especially Central American nations devastated by war or natural disasters. She also wonders what she would do with her 11-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen by birth. Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald Trump Vasquez said she is thinking about how she would sell her property and move back home. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.