EAN: 9781529039320

EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE - JONATHAN BLITZER...

New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer has been covering the immigration crisis at Americäs
southern border since it began  but the current emergency is the end of a much larger story. In
this  his first book  Blitzer goes back to the beginning  to the shadowy civil wars in El
Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s  to the American prison system in the 1990s  where petty
street criminals learned how to organize themselves into international crime syndicates  to
Honduras¿s brutal crackdown on crime in the 2000s and the emergence of Salvadorean gangs across
the United States. And then the Trump era  in which immigration became a vector of resurgent
populism  with mass internments the order of the day. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is a fresh
and full account of Americäs immigration problems  but it is much more than that. It is an
odyssey of struggle and resilience  telling the epic story of people whose lives ebb and flow
across the border and those who help and hinder them. It is a gripping and persuasive attempt
to answer not only the question of how America got there  but the vital question of who we are
and who we want to be in our liberal Western democracies  whether we are incarcerating children
on our southern borders or watching them drown on the shores of the Mediterranean.

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