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

Summary:

"An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border that tells the story of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policy makers determining their fate"--Provided by publisher.

"Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from farther away. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. They may have already been deported from the United States, but it remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. Their homes have become uninhabitable. They will take their chances. This vast and unremitting crisis did not spring up overnight. Indeed, as Blitzer dramatizes with forensic, unprecedented reporting, it is the result of decades of misguided policy and sweeping corruption. Brilliantly weaving the stories of Central Americans whose lives have been devastated by chronic political conflict and violence with those of American activists, government officials, and the politicians responsible for the country's tragically tangled immigration policy, Blitzer reveals the full, layered picture for the first time." -- Adapted from publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781984880802
ISBN: 1984880802
Physical Description: xi, 523 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-506) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1. The heart doctor -- The true identity of the people of God -- The general and his boots -- Spanish for Vietnam -- Something immigrant and hungry -- Pro bono coyotes -- We can't stop, but do we have any other choice? -- They don't even let you fuck in peace -- The Guatemalan solution -- The red bishop -- Living as long as the republic does -- Smugglers with a conscience -- Stepsister of the government -- The heart doctor speaks -- A park called pain -- Sanctuary goes to trial -- Nothing more permanent than a temporary immigrant -- The doctor and the general -- Part 2. Half anthropologist, half wannabe hood -- Gang wars -- La Clínica del Pueblo -- Hispanics versus Blacks versus Whites -- War zones -- Operation blockade -- Above the rest -- The third rail of American politics -- Fast Eddie -- The sisters -- The trial -- Homieland -- The reformers -- Part 3. The voice of God -- Deporter in chief -- Border emergency -- Memory card -- Trump -- Killing fields -- Los nerds -- La pastora -- Stay at your own risk -- Do I have to come here injured or dead? -- The highlands at the border -- We need concrete information -- The caravan -- Solidarity 2000 -- Remain in Mexico -- Rewriting asylum -- Part 4. The heart doctor -- The Wuhan of the Americas -- Eddie and Juan -- Keldy -- Lucrecia -- Simply not who we are -- Home.