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MOHYELDIN: “Good afternoon, Lindsay. You talked about two of the important economic factors that are driving this surge that we’re starting to see on the U.S. Border and we wanted to see first hand how this complex cocktail of issues is forcing people to leave places like Guatemala and really, one of those places that really captures that is here at this soup kitchen run by Franciscan friars. It’s one of the few soup kitchens that is actually open on Saturdays and about 50 or so people have lined up. They serve anywhere from 50 to 100 people throughout the course of the morning. People lining up to get their hands on very basic food items. Today’s menu included some rice, soup with meat as well as some oat milk, but the more important thing is the stories that you hear from the people here. Why they are coming to places like this, why they need that help and in a city like Guatemala City, the driving force has been a cocktail of the pandemic forcing people to lose their jobs.”