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It's hard to know who’s a ‘genuine’ asylum seeker. Just ask Anaida Poilievre’s uncle.

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Pierre Poilievre's uncle by marriage is among tens of thousands of people who have taken the Roxham Road .

Jose Gerardo Galindo Prato first arrived in Canada in 2004 but did not leave until 2007 after his asylum application was refused.

He then returned to Canada in 2018 , claiming he had been wrongly imprisoned in Venezuela after denouncing corruption.

Anaida Poilievre's uncle-in-law, Galindo Prato , was intercepted by the RCMP at the Canadian border in October 2018 .

He spent 48 hours at the border explaining his political situation, then headed to Montreal to try to rebuild his life.

The circumstances that drove him into exile are presented differently between 2004 and 2018 .