With its Italian Renaissance Revival facade and opulent marble lobby, the Roosevelt was one of Manhattan's grandest hotels when it opened in 1926, putting on a lavish banquet for 1,500 guests. Now, as The Mail on Sunday saw last week, an entirely different clientele is filling its 1,000 rooms, while others queue patiently outside to get in.Tired, confused and often shoving their worldly goods and families in battered wheeled suitcases and pushchairs, these newly arrived migrants – fresh off the bus from the US southern border – receive instructions from a Spanish-speaking National Guardsman in combat gear at the main entrance (few of the arrivals speak a word of English).
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