Getting Beyond the Border: How Immigration Became a Political Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Author of NY Times bestseller Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Drawing on his work as a journalist, Blitzer will discuss how immigration became a political crisis.

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis (Penguin Random House, 2024) is an epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported book about the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border. Blitzer tells this history through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate. The book has received widespread praise and was named one of the best books of 2024 by the New York Times and several other publications.

The event is free and open to the public. A reception with book sales and a book signing will follow the lecture.

Presented by the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, this event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies, the Institute for Social Concerns, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy.