Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

"Extraordinary . . . a profound reflection on one of the great paradoxes of American life--and a tribute to the astonishing indomitability of the human spirit." --Patrick Radden Keefe "A searing, gut-wrenching, and masterfully reported account." --Jill Lepore 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 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 rem