Everyone Who is Gone is Here : the United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer.-2024 -544 Pages

 Everyone Who is Gone is Here : the United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer.-2024 -544 Pages

I am very glad to begin October with Jonathan Blitzer's incredibly informative book.

"National Bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 • A Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist Finalist 

“What an incredibly thorough documentation of the causes of the immigration crisis, the discussions that have been going on through multiple administrations.” —Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

“Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is sure to take its place as one of the definitive accounts of the U.S. and Central American immigration puzzle. . . . Hopefully, those with the power to change things will listen.” —Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer"

Everything said by trump and his sycophants about immigration is false, much of it deliberate lies designed to terrify white Americans about millions of murders, gangsters and pet Eaters who are out to destroy America. As Blitzer explains elegantly Gangs in El Salvador,  Honduras and Guatemala originally developed when American authorities deported immigrants arrested for a crime of any kind.

Blitzer focues a lot  on El Salvador (I have been to Guatemala).  

 . . . "What could be a complex story is a stunning epic woven around the lives of four individuals seeking sanctuary from the death squads and murderous gangs that at different times dominated their homelands . . . While at times this is implicitly an indictment of the sometime short-termism and cynicism of Washington’s foreign, security and immigration policy, this is a novelistic account rather than a tract, and his tale is beautifully told. All four characters, whose lives he has followed over many years, linger in the reader’s mind.” —Financial Times  

Everyone Who is Gone is Here : the United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer will become a classic.  I thank Jonathan Blitzer for this beautiful heartbreaking and heartwarming work.

Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He has won a National Award for Education Reporting as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award, and was a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America. He lives with his family in New York City.