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Amid the turmoil of the presidential election, one issue strikes at the heart of our current moment: What to do about the hundreds of thousands of people seeking refuge at our southern border. To understand how we got here, New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer wove together years of reporting to produce Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, a national bestseller and a New York Times best book of the year that chronicles the political, social, and human stakes of our unparalleled immigration crisis.

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Through deep investigation and pointed analysis, Blitzer details how decades of corrupt policymaking and international meddling led to this fraught moment at our border, and how our labyrinthine immigration policies are making matters worse. With sweeping narratives and a storyteller’s eye for detail, he allows the migrants themselves “to participate, for once, in the privileged backroom conversations that decide their fate.”

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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is 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.

Everyone who makes the journey to the U.S.-Mexico border faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive each year travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from even farther. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Some may have already been deported from the United States, but crossing 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 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.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is an odyssey of struggle and resilience. This vital and remarkable story has shaped the nation’s turbulent politics and culture in countless ways — and will almost certainly determine its future. Get your copy now through this email, and your purchase will also benefit The Lever.

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