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#NYC: The migrants out in the cold and the city turning away. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

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#NYC: The migrants out in the cold and the city turning away. Harry Siegel, TheCity.com
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/14/migrant-waiting-rooms-shelters-leslie-knope-parks-recreation/

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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

0:07.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

Congressional seat for the Third district of New York.

0:15.0

One by the Democrat, Tom Swazi.

0:20.0

What does that mean for the majority in Congress? It gets closer and

0:24.8

closer for the Republicans and the Democrats. What does it mean for New York? I

0:30.0

welcome Harry Seagull, a senior editor at the City, an online journal I highly recommend,

0:35.4

as well as a columnist for the New York Daily News.

0:39.0

Harry, a very good evening to you.

0:40.3

Tom Swazi is well known to me for a long time reading the daily news your newspaper and now reading the city he's a professional he's been in Congress

0:51.0

He's extremely vivid and well spoken.

0:54.3

This seemed to be a one-sided contest all the way.

0:58.1

This is the George Santo seat and the disgrace might have left the people of the district worry about

1:05.7

voting for someone from the Republican Party but what is Swazi saying that gets so much attention, something about the immigration story at the border.

1:16.7

Good evening to you.

1:18.7

Hey, good evening, John.

1:20.0

So Tom Swazi actually held this seat in Congress and he gave it up to run a primary against

1:26.2

Governor Kathy Hockel, who was the lieutenant governor who inherited the seat when Andrew Cuomo resigned.

1:38.5

That's how it opened up for George Santos.

1:45.2

That's its own story, but you know this fabulous gets exposed and eventually expelled from Congress this is a district that Biden won by eight points but in Long Island

1:51.6

mostly covers a little Queens too, where Republicans have been on an incredible run.

1:57.0

They have all four seats in Congress, and that actually amounts for Republican control of Congress.

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