Links & Annotations

• Chichi in the Review Mirror: Immigration as Seen From the Place of the Nettles. Five posts I made on my personal blog in 2014 during one of my trips to Chichi for a clinic visit. This was during the “unaccompanied minor” crisis that Obama had to deal with, and these short entries reflect my attempt to better understand what was going on. Much of the information in these blog posts is relevant and good background material for the crisis of parent-accompanied minors we face today. This is my brief presaging of themes discussed in the 2019 articles in The New Yorker by Jonathan Blitzer. See link below.
• The New Yorker’s 3-part series by Jonathan Blitzer about Guatemalan emigration to the United States, and what drives it. Including sections on how climate change and debt are fueling immigration, and how successful immigration has led to a building boom of large, expensive, and impractical Guatemalan homes that often are never lived in.