Everyone who is gone is here : the United States, Central America, and the making of a crisis / Jonathan Blitzer.

Blitzer, Jonathan, author

London : Picador, 2025.

544 pages ; 20 cm

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.

9781529039351 (pbk)

325.73

JV6450

325.73

English

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