A Review of Everyone Who is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer’s well-written and evocative book, Everyone Who is Gone is Here, has been hailed as a must-read on the U.S. current immigration emergency. In my opinion, it’s not.
In fact, it’s more about the emergency that occurred a generation or more ago, when civil wars across Central America dominated Cold War news coverage and spilled over into bitter battles between Democrats and Republicans in Congress. That war still exists, and polemics about immigration and an “unsecure” border are among the weaponry.