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Thursday, December 01, 2022

Mexican asylum seekers set their sights on Canada

Pedro Meraz says living in Colima, Mexico, was like living in a war zone, with shootings, burning cars and dismembered bodies being left outside of schools.

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The family is part of a surge in the number of Mexicans who have requested asylum in Canada this year. Due to the relative ease of obtaining asylum in Canada compared to the U.S., visa-free travel between Mexico and Canada, and the threat of violence back home, more than 8,000 Mexican nationals have sought refugee status in 2022. That’s almost five times as many as last year and more than twice as many as in 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions that accompanied it.

14 comments:

  1. They won't like it.....

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    1. The beer and maple syrup are pretty good. Warning about mayo on the fries, tho.

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  2. Diversity is our strength according to the greasy queef running the show up here!

    Chutes Magoo

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  3. Go North young amigos claim asylum and tell the Canuck imigration folks you're the long lost brothers and sisters of Fidel Trudeau.

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  4. Wonder how many Mexicans will apply for Canadian asylum solely as a ruse to get across the border into the USA.

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    1. After the first winter there, every damn one of them.

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  5. I am questioning their intelligence - leave a shithole with a warm climate, cartels, corruption and a dictatorship for a shithole cold enough to kill penguins, gangs, corruption and a dictatorship.

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    1. Anon, while canada might not look that great to us, it looks wonderful to folks from the third world.

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  6. I'm not sure they intended to go all the way to Canada. I think that Mexico is just spewing people at such a rate that some were spattered that far north.

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  7. Attention, attention, Greg Abbott...hope you read this.

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  8. 8,000 Mexican Nationals? That's like 3 sq blocks in Modesto.

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  9. I thought Canada required proof of employment in Canada there prior to being allowed to emigrate. I'm not up on Canadian immigration policy.

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  10. Someone let them know windchills in the mid -40s are not uncommon on the prairies in the winter. I recommend Ottawa, which is warm and muggy in the summer, and where the politicians responsible for our disastrous immigration rules spend a lot of their time. Or maybe Quebec, where they don't even hide the fact that they can't stand people who are darker than a certain shade, especially ones who can't speak French.

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