RUTH AYLETT admires the blunt honesty with which a woman’s experience is recorded, but detects the unexamined privilege that underlies it
What do we want to be?
GAVIN O’TOOLE applauds a disturbing book that demonstrates how failing immigration policy has undermined liberal democracy itself

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer
Picador, £22
IF Donald Trump’s latest bile about immigrants, spat out at the Republican National Convention, was wearily predictable, that does not makes it any less alarming.
His claim that there was “a massive invasion at our southern border that has spread misery, crime, poverty, disease and destruction” across the US confirms his instinct that the signature issue of his 2016 election can be revived as a key attack line in 2024.
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