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Milling about outside the Olympic Stadium, the latest newcomers to Montreal from the United States tell varied and desperate tales of making their way to Quebec and the cavernous Big O — what they hope will be their second to last stop on a long journey north.

Haitian national Catia Jean travelled from Florida, where she’s been living for a year, and in her broken English and French said she left because of President Donald Trump. He doesn’t want to let them live and work in the United States, she said.

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“Trump says no, no, no. He will deport everyone, even those working.”

Mack Louis has been a long-distance truck driver in New York state for 10 years, but his visa expired in July, and it won’t be renewed, he said.

In May, Trump announced that Haitians’ temporary protected status in the United States, a policy instituted after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, would expire in January 2018. Canada’s special status for Haitians was rescinded last summer, putting Haitians at risk of deportation like other nationalities. However, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made public statements welcoming those in fear of deportation from the United States.