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

'Urgent  extraordinary . . . a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit.'
- Patrick Radden Keefe  bestselling author Empire of Pain    'Moving  sweeping  and masterful'
- Sally Hayden  author of My Fourth Time  We Drowned    New Yorker journalist Jonathan Blitzer
has been covering the immigration crisis at America's southern border for nearly a decade  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 and the policies of mass deportation that transformed
local street criminals into international crime syndicates  to Honduras's brutal crackdown on
crime in the 2000s and the emergence of gangs across Central America and 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
America's 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.   'A searing  gut-wrenching
and masterfully reported account of one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twenty-first
century.' - Jill Lepore  New York Times bestselling author of These Truths: A History of the
United States

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