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Krysten Lawton, 53, works in health and safety at Ford Motor Company of Canada’s engine plant in Windsor, Ontario — mere blocks from the Detroit River — where she has worked for 30 years.

Lawton is a fourth-generation auto worker in Windsor, an industrial hub abutting Canada’s US border near Detroit.

Her great-grandfather, both grandfathers and her father all worked for Ford, which employs her, her husband and their oldest son.