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

In addition to sharing migrants’ stories, Blitzer includes accounts from people like policymakers and border patrol agents. How do these two sets of case studies function to illustrate key themes and ideas? In what ways are they different or similar in their experiences?

Blitzer begins his analysis back in the 1980s and continues until the immediate post-pandemic years. How and why has the United States’s stance on immigration shifted over the years? What has changed, and what remains the same?

How does Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here examine the role of human rights in US immigration policy? How do moral and legal complexities overlap when addressing these issues?