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Windsor is being warned it could be hit with a wave of immigrants and asylum seekers after the U.S. killed protected status for more than 200,000 Salvadorans that had been in place nearly two decades.

U.S. Homeland Security announced this week it is withdrawing a Temporary Protected Status first offered in 2001 for people who have since started businesses, bought homes and had children in the States.

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Angela Ventura, with the El Salvador Association of Windsor, said most people forced to leave the United States will head to Canada and many will show up in Windsor.

“It’s a border city,” said Ventura, who received calls on behalf of 25 anxious Salvadorans in the last two days.

“They want to come here. They’re not going back home, because home is not El Salvador anymore for them.”

The Temporary Protected Status was first granted after two devastating earthquakes in 2001 killed about 1,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in El Salvador, also one of the world’s most violent countries.