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“At Vasco there was a lot of pressure,” he said through a translator.

They followed makeshift signs to a small courtyard, where scores of volunteer lawyers, translators and other staff helped them apply for a little-known federal program that offers an unusual — and probably fleeting — reprieve from deportation.

At first she took jobs as a translator and as a BBC secretary, before attending Ulster University where she qualified to begin work as a social worker.

"When I came to the place where it would happen, there were only men, apart from female translators," she said.

But county officials told BBC Verify that some in the group “needed the assistance of translators”.