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

Jonathan Blitzer

Start date: June 1, 2025

Finish date: July 1, 2025

Discussion: Nonfiction

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Mar 18, 2025 Yashoda Sampath rated it it was amazing

Shelves: unfinished, nonfiction, politics

Great and necessary book tracing the history of US immigration policy from the US-backed death squads in Latin America to the current crisis, told vividly through real human stories from refugees, activists and other undocumented folks.

I had to stop when the book got to Trump 1.0, because my heart couldn't take it. But what I'll take away is that everything Trump is almost identical to Reagan. We survived that, and maybe we'll survive this. ...more

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May 22, 2025 spoko rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, race, reading-challenge, politics, economics

This is a pretty solid history of the United States’ disastrous impact on the countries of the Northern Triangle, and the repercussions in terms of migration that are still ongoing today. And about 10 years ago, it might have been a great source for understanding the immigration crisis at the US border. But today, that crisis isn’t so largely determined by the Northern Triangle countries specifically. Unfortunately, Blitzer is very, very sharply focused on them. So while it’s a good historical r ...more

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