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Khabir is less easily mollified. She’s worried about what the future might hold for her and her family if Trump wins. “I always think about how my mother always said, ‘everybody needs to have an active passport. You never know when you just have to up and leave,’ ” she said. “As an American, you kind of see that stuff happening on TV. You know, ‘that could never happen here, this is America. I could never be forced to leave the country.’ But it could be a reality.”

“This man has convinced various pockets of the country that barring Syrian refugees who are fleeing for their lives, barring Muslim immigrants, is OK. … He has convinced them that he is an appropriate candidate, because they keep voting for him. And they nominated him. So yeah, I think about it all the time. I think I’m just hoping and praying that it hasn’t got to that point.”

For Khabir, watching Bernie Sanders supporters equate Clinton with Trump this week has been tough to take. For her, the stakes are too high to think of a protest vote. She supported Sanders initially. But she’s backing Clinton now and hopes other Sanders holdouts begin to do the same.

“What you are doing is literally handing over the election to Trump,” she said. “And those people who are doing that, I don’t think they see the stakes as that high. I don’t think they understand that it is a life-or-death situation for some people.”

If Trump does win, she’s not sure what she’ll do. “I think a lot of us are paying more attention to, you know, hopefully Canada has some open arms,” she said. “But we are just really hoping that America will stay true to itself, and when people step into those voting booths, will really do what we in Islam say is ‘Want for your brother what you want for yourself.’ ”

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