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    • Moving to Canada

    (Illustration by Lauren Tamaki)

    When I moved to Canada from Syria, I could finally be myself

    “I love living in a place where I can be free about my sexuality without being judged.”

    The Blue Water Maiden statue in Port Huron, Mich., near the Canada-U.S. border (Paul Sancya/AP)

    There’s been no flood of Americans heading north. Well, not U.S. citizens at least.

    But a lot more people who came legally to the U.S. from other countries have fled Trump’s America, making Canada their home