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Introduction to Chapter 10

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Blitzer, Jonathan. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here. Penguin Press, 2024. Hardcover.

· In the Introduction, the author explained how the population of migrants coming to the U.S. changed from mostly Mexican men looking for work to migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and other Central American countries fleeing violence or bad living conditions.

· The U.S. was not able to handle the increase in migrants that began around 2014.

· By the end of 2019, there was a 90% increase in migrants from 2018.

· The U.S. head of Customs and Border Protection commented that those were “numbers no immigration system in the world [was] designed to handle” (3).

· The last time Congress reformed the immigration system was 1990.

· By 2009, when Barack Obama became president, there was a backlog of half a million asylum cases.

· By the end of...

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