2022 General News

A Border Patrol Agent comforts a weeping migrant after he carried an elderly woman across the Rio Grande River from Mexico to Del Rio, Texas on May 26, 2021.

Manoj Kumar waves a handkerchief from the back seat of his vehicle at his mother Vidhya Devi as she receives oxygen in the parking lot of a Gurudwara (Sikh temple) amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease in Ghaziabad, India, April 24, 2021.

Boston, Massachusetts -- 8/29/21 -- Jay’dha Rackard (C) and her fellow members of the Girlz of Imani Dance Troupe throw carnations into the Boston Harbor as the names enslaved members of Boston’s oldest churches are read during the dedication of Boston’s Middle Passage Port Marker which acknowledges the city’s history of slavery and honors the Africans who were forced into the transatlantic trade on voyages known as the Middle Passage.

A woman crosses the Rio Grande with two children in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Saturday, March 27, 2021. Asylum seekers often turn themselves into the American authorities to initiate a formal request for political asylum. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, 2021 was a record for children and teenagers crossing the border without their parents. By March, 8500 children who had crossed the border alone were currently housed in Department of Health and Human Services shelters, while others 3,500 more were waiting at Border Patrol stations for beds in those shelters to open up.