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Zachary Kamel | AP

Mexican asylum-seekers increasingly setting their sights on Canada

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer informs a migrant couple of the location of a legal border station in 2017, shortly before they illegally crossed from Champlain, N.Y., to Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, using Roxham Road. (Charles Krupa / AP)

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

When his wife Rocio Gonzalez, 28, a lawyer who worked with abused women, began getting death threats from a cartel and the authorities ignored her pleas for help, they decided they had to leave.

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