#StateThinking: Migrants abandon outside the Roosevelt Hotel @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
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🗓️ 2 August 2023
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#StateThinking: Migrants abandon outside the Roosevelt Hotel @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/7/31/23814765/migrants-right-to-shelter-roosevelt-hotel
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| 0:38.2 | Mary Kessel, the Executive Vice President and Stevens Incorporated, former senior advisor to |
| 0:43.2 | the Secretary of State. And before that editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, we're looking |
| 0:48.0 | at a disaster, a humanitarian disaster in Manhattan right now. There is a hotel, very famous. |
| 0:55.4 | 1,000 rooms is my memory. A Roosevelt Hotel. One Spongebob named for a theater Roosevelt. |
| 1:01.7 | One Spongebob was the center of great drama of FDR's reelection campaigns would be centered |
| 1:08.0 | at the Roosevelt Hotel. Well, today it is part of the choices by the Mayor of New York and the |
| 1:14.4 | City Council to house the migrants some 56,000 plus or housed in many hotels, including the Roosevelt |
| 1:21.7 | Hotel, arriving from the southern border, arriving how by buses from some of the reporting |
| 1:29.5 | suggests by buses. They're not walking from Texas. But before they reach Texas, before they |
| 1:34.8 | reach the Mexican border, they have to pass through something called the Darian Gap. If these are |
| 1:40.3 | people coming from the wider world, not just Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, the North |
| 1:45.8 | and Triangle that we were told in the first months of the Biden administration. These are very brave |
| 1:52.1 | and tough and young people. Very brave. I read now the news from Panama City. The number of people |
| 1:58.6 | crossing the treacherous Darian Gap linking Panama and Colombia hit an all-time high in the first |
| 2:04.0 | seven months of this year. Figures released from Panama City with July seeing a sharp jump |
| 2:10.7 | despite recent efforts to curb the trend. They marched through 60 miles of triple canopy jungle. |
| 2:16.4 | Perhaps up to 10 percent don't make it. It's that dangerous, especially in the Flash flood period. |
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