Jonathan Blitzer
American journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker covering immigration and politics, and author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here (2024), a history of Central American migration to the United States.
Jonathan Blitzer did not write this page.
We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.
Filter All topics · Newest first
-
Their wordsSimply unbelievable—ICE is not listing thousands of people in detention (those with so-called final orders of removal) in the online detainee locator. Which means that no one (lawyers/family members) will know where they're being held.
- 3 months earlier
-
Their wordsShocking on every level. Miller proposed ending habeas corpus for undocumented immigrants
- 3 months earlier
-
Our reading
Trump's immigration agenda, built on mass detention, has caused a humanitarian and legal crisis.
Their wordsTrump's immigration agenda, which hinges on mass detention, has caused a humanitarian & legal crisis.
- 17 months earlier
-
Their wordsWhich underscores just how much TX gov Greg Abbott, by busing thousands of migrants to blue cities & states, has changed the politics of the issue
- 11 days earlier
-
Their wordsBut the Biden Admin, through a June executive order, has done something even harsher than that bill. It ends asylum as we’ve known it.
- 6 weeks earlier
-
Their wordsIt was working, too, and in striking ways. But the timing of the pause is especially bad now