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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer review – seeking sanctuary
A sweeping and deeply reported analysis of US immigration policy, in all its hypocrisy
Keldy had seen several of her brothers murdered, and narrowly escaped assassination herself, before she chose to leave Honduras with her two sons and take the migrant’s path north.
- Charlie English
- The Guardian
This is a journey fraught with danger, but early in 2017 the family crossed the desert into New Mexico, where she flagged down a border patrol vehicle and claimed asylum.
Keldy had a watertight case, or so she believed.
But after a…