JONATHAN BLITZER, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. He won a 2017 National Award for Education Reporting for American Studies, a story about an underground school for undocumented immigrants. Blitzer is also the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award, the 2018 Immigration Journalism Prize from the French-American Foundation, and a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America. His writing and reporting have also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Atavist, Oxford American, and The Nation. He was a three-time finalist for a Livingston Award, a 2021 Emerson Fellow at New America, and received the 2025 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism. Blitzer lives with his family in New York City

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