Jonathan Blitzer, Emerson Collective Fellow, is a staff writer at the New Yorker. His book, titled Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, is a narrative history of regional migration to the United States from the 1980s to the present, with a focus on El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Blitzer is a recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award and a National Award for Education Reporting. In 2018, he received the Immigration Journalism Prize from the French-American Foundation and a Media Leadership Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Selected Works:
- The Deportees Taking Our Calls: A story about the legacy of mass deportation between the U.S. and El Salvador centering on call-centers staffed by deportees.
- The Teens Trapped Between a Gang and the Law: A story about Central Americans living on Long Island, New York, who are trapped between gangs with ties to their homelands and immigration agents emboldened in the Trump Era.
- How Stephen Miller Manipulates Donald Trump to Further His Immigration Obsession: A profile of White House advisor Stephen Miller, the architect of the most thoroughgoing assault on immigration in decades.
- How Climate Change Is Fuelling the U.S. Border Crisis: A report from the western highlands of Guatemala analyzing how climate change is driving people from their homes and fueling mass migration in the region.
- A Small Town in Mexico Prepares to Double in Size With the Arrival of the Migrant Caravan: A dispatch from Oaxaca, Mexico, where a caravan of Honduran migrants stopped en route to the U.S. in the fall of 2018.
