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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Richard Hall

She came to America at seven years old. Now she’s deporting herself back to Mexico

Quebec Vasquez has a legal right to be in the U.S. Her mother brought her from Mexico when she was seven years old and she cannot remember anything about her life before that. She has lived and worked and given birth to three children here in the time since, and held temporary legal status for the last decade.

But at 33 years old, Donald Trump’s mass deportations have filled her with such terror that she and her family are choosing to “self-deport” back to Mexico, a country she barely remembers.

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