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

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller

'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 DrownedNew 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

'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

'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

Der New Yorker Journalist Jonathan Blitzer berichtet seit Beginn der Einwanderungskrise an der Südgrenze Amerikas, doch der aktuelle Notfall ist das Ende einer viel grösseren Geschichte. In diesem, seinem ersten Buch, geht Blitzer zurück zum Anfang, zu den schattenhaften Bürgerkriegen in El Salvador und Guatemala in den 1980er Jahren; zum amerikanischen Gefängnissystem in den 1990er Jahren, wo kleine Strassenkriminelle lernten, sich in internationale Verbrechersyndikate zu organisieren; zur brutalen Bekämpfung der Kriminalität in Honduras in den 2000er Jahren und dem Aufstieg salvadorianischer Gangs in den gesamten Vereinigten Staaten. Dann kommt die Trump-Ära, in der Einwanderung zu einem Vektor des wiederauflebenden Populismus wurde, mit Masseninternierungen als Tagesordnung. „Jeder, der gegangen ist, ist hier“ ist ein frischer und umfassender Bericht über die Einwanderungsprobleme Amerikas, aber es ist noch viel mehr als das. Es ist eine Odyssee des Kampfes und der Resilienz, die die epische Geschichte von Menschen erzählt, deren Leben über die Grenze fliessen und von denen, die ihnen helfen oder sie behindern. Es ist ein fesselnder und überzeugender Versuch, nicht nur die Frage zu beantworten, wie Amerika dorthin gelangte, sondern auch die entscheidende Frage, wer wir sind und wer wir in unseren liberalen westlichen Demokratien sein wollen, ob wir Kinder an unseren Südgrenzen inhaftieren oder sie am Ufer des Mittelmeers ertrinken sehen.