Ukrainian refugees are presenting themselves to U.S. border agents and asking for temporary admission to the United States on humanitarian grounds.
A makeshift shelter for Ukrainians in Tijuana, Mexico. Thousands who fled the war have been arriving here and waiting to be admitted by border agents into the United States.
Here are some of the people whose lives have converged at the U.S.-Mexico border thanks to a war a half a globe away.It took weeks for Aleksey Ivkov to convince his mother Tatiana to leave Ukraine. She’d been determined to wait the war out by sheltering in a subway tunnel in their home city of Kharkiv. But as the war intensified, she finally agreed to evacuate — and to meet her son in Tijuana.
Tatiana, who shared only her first name, is 74, and after more than a month of anxiety said she was feeling more cheerful now, eager to see her relatives and grandchildren in California. But she’s looking forward to her return to Ukraine, and to reuniting with her partner, who because he is in his late 50s is considered of fighting age and prohibited from leaving the country.
“Two weeks ago we bought like six air mattresses, thinking, let’s help a few people out,” he said. “We just had no idea. The next night, it was a hundred people.” “These are my people,” she said, her voice catching. “It’s just people. It’s horrible what’s happening right now. And if we don’t all put in a little bit, it’ll get worse.”Last week, Iryna Merezhko flew from her home in Los Angeles to Warsaw, Poland. Then she took a train into Ukraine to meet her sister and her sister’s son Ivan at a hotel. Her sister had decided to stay in Ukraine to support the country’s soldiers, but she wanted Ivan, 14, to join his aunt in the United States.
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