A federal court in California also blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to kill Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which prevents people from being deported to certain countries with ongoing disasters or conflict.

Had Trump succeeded, Florisela López Rivera, 52, would have lost her protected status. She arrived in the United States from El Salvador in 1997, gaining TPS four years later.

“And ever since, I’ve been fighting,” Rivera said in Spanish.

Rivera, a dishwasher, has worked at Wynn Las Vegas for five years and has been with Culinary Union Local 226 just as long. Wearing a union T-shirt, she spent Oct. 14 canvassing for Harris in Spring Valley’s sprawling neighborhoods.

Trump has repeatedly said he would try to strip TPS protections from migrants in Ohio, but Rivera said she tried not to think about his or other Republicans’ plans.

“(Harris) comes from immigrant parents who came to this country by emigrating as well,” Rivera said. “For me, it’s a great hope to know that if she stays (in the White House), she’ll understand our condition as immigrants to this country.”

Mass deportation would have devastating effects on Nevada’s economy. Immigrants make up around half of the Culinary Union’s 60,000 workers who run the restaurants, casinos and hotels on which the Las Vegas economy depends.

“This is the largest economy in the world, and it runs on immigrant workers,” said Ted Pappageorge, the union local’s secretary-treasurer. “Mass deportations, separating families and going after folks that have been here that are contributing to the economy, paying their taxes — it’s just a disaster.”