Mexican consul defends country as refugee seekers flock to Canada - (another article about Mexicans in Windsor)

“The consular agency of Mexico in Leamington, Ont. defended its country’s reputation Sunday after several recently-arrived Mexicans blamed their homeland’s corrupt government, powerful criminal gangs and economically poor conditions as grounds for being granted refugee status in Canada.

“We are a democratic country,” Mexican consul Alberto Acosta said Sunday of his homeland. “We have elections to elect all the authorities… We have laws, we have the constitution, we have all the laws every country has.”

But many of the 200-plus Mexicans who have been bleeding across Windsor’s border by the busloads in recent weeks say they’re migrating north to avoid deportation to their native land, which they consider inhospitable because of its criminal and corrupt elements.”

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