Lifeguards participate in the 68th annual Ron Trenton Memorial Lifeguard Relays at Mission Beach on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021 in San Diego, California. The event is named after Ronald B. Trenton who was a long-serving lifeguard and challenges participants in swimming, running, paddle boarding and landline rescue. Ocean Beach came out with the win.
A vendor walks the beach as a new border mural is being finished at Playas de Tijuana on Saturday, July 31, 2021 in Tijuana, Baja California. The Playas de Tijuana Mural Project shares the stories of fifteen undocumented individuals who arrived to the United States as children and were deported to Tijuana — some veterans. The mural has QR codes posted next to each face that tells the individual’s story. The project began in 2019 and is measured at 150 feet wide and 18 feet high.
Valerie Bermudez, left, Kendal Gibson, Tomas Cruz, Amanda Avalos and Josiah Hernandez wait for their portraits to be taken during the Watermelon Thump Queen during the 66th Annual Queen Coronation on June 27, 2019 in Luling, Texas. Bermudez was crowned queen and Avalos was announced as the princess.
Migrants order Uber Eats while waiting between the U.S.-Mexico border walls on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 in Tijuana , Baja California. Title 42 was put in place by the Trump administration in March 2020 based on a public health order that was used to block migrants from entering the United States.
The policy is expected to end at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
Pethou Archange, center, mourns the loss of her brother as her cousin, Guinot Valdez, right, and another man hold her. Friends, families and supporters gathered in a small funeral home to remember the lives of Jocelyn Anselme, 34, and Calory Archange, 31, two Haitians who died living in Mexico.
Cesar Ploneda dances with his stepdaughter Zoey Mary Jane Grande as they celebrate her quinceañera at the Marina Village Conference Center on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022 in San Diego, California.
Oswaldo Gael Escalante, 1, reaches for his mother as she turns on the water to their kitchen faucet for the first time on Feb. 4, 2020. Residents of the colonia Las Lomitas have been waiting for running water for 20 years. Four households became some of the first families to have water turned onto their homes. Escalante's family has lived in the colonia for 10 years.
John Larison, 61, holds a flag he had in a boat on Sept. 5, 2017. Larison has been living in Magnolia, Texas on and off since the early 60s. His trailer was destroyed by Hurricane Harvey. He and his brindle boxer, Molly, have been living in tents since the hurricane. "You got to become countrified," he said. "I'm self sufficient. I don't ask for nothing, I just do."
Harold Muhammad and Stefan X hand out Final Call newspapers, the official newspaper of the Nation of Islam, in Austin, Texas.
A sea lion swims in one of four marine protected areas on August 28, 2023 in La Jolla, California. The state has 124 MPAs.
Bentlea Stryk, 5, left, plays hide-and-seek with Marley Posada, 7, while waiting to participate in the 46th Annual Miss Victoria Pageant at the Victoria Fine Arts Center on Saturday, June 25, 2016 in Victoria, Texas.
Amy Lee, 60, of San Diego, joined hundreds of people during a rally tot advocate against vaccine mandates at Balboa Park Organ Pavilion on Nov. 19, 2021 in San Diego, California.
Daniel Suarez, 15, practices his lassoing technique on March 30, 2019 at Rancho Tres Potrancas in Austin, Texas. Suarez is on a 15 member team called El Herradero.
Rickey Johnson, 62, lays in a bunk before going to bed at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless on Feb. 17, 2020. Johnson was commenting on how folks treat him like "garbage" because he's homeless and gives examples of interactions with passersby.
Canyon Real, 7, plays on his phone as Brennan Tate, 7, waits to light the Driskill Hotel Christmas tree on Nov. 27, 2018. The Tates are one of 12 Season for Caring featured families. The Tates stayed in the hotel for the night.
Port Lavaca resident Bob Davis, rests at Magnolia Beach with his family on Saturday, June 25, 2016. Davis, 54, retired from the military but still works as a contractor.
A box of cigars rests in the pocket of Richard Overton. People came to pay their respects during a public viewing of the World War II veteran who was also the country’s oldest man. Overton died on Dec. 27, 2018, at the age of 112.
Danielle Diaz, 16, does a passé pose during a photoshoot with her uncle Ken Chadwick, not pictured, at Balboa Park on Nov. 23, 2021 in San Diego, California.
Numerous people take turns jumping from a bridge into Barton Creek on August 23, 2020, in Austin, Texas.
A long exposure of a herring hunting at night on Oct. 3, 2023 in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Chase Mayo comforts his wife, Anna Mayo, the sister of Garrett Foster, during a vigil in memory of her brother on July 26, 2020, in Austin, Texas. Foster was shot and killed Saturday night on Fourth Street and Congress Avenue while attending a protest against police violence.
A woman holds a sign shouting at police during a march on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 in Tijuana, Baja California. More than a thousand women marched through the streets holding signs and chanting to end femicide and other abuses. The event began at Monumento México as part of International Women’s Day.
A Peruvian 23-year-old wears layers to keep warm and shaded as he waits between the border walls that separate Tijuana from San Diego with about 500-800 men traveling without their families the day after Title 42 ended on Friday, May 12, 2023 in Tijuana , Baja California. The group was separated from another group of women and families earlier this week by Border Patrol.
Title 42 was put in place by the Trump administration in March 2020 based on a public health order that was used to block migrants from entering the United States.
The men said they receive granola bars and water twice a day by agents.
Sael, 32, a community volunteer for Defend Asylum, has been living in Tijuana for about eight months but in the country for about a year. Sael lives in a home with three other adults and is seeking asylum in the United States. He, like many Haitians, fears for his life living in Tijuana.
Jillian Parramore, a disability advocate, lost her job at the beginning of the pandemic because the company she was working for did not renew her contract on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022 in Lemon Grove, California. Parramore has spastic cerebral palsy and is immunocompromised.
Pedro Arana Mesa, 67, stands in a place he has called home for more than 35 years and speaks about the new Amazon warehouse that is being built and neighbors the settlement called Colonia Nueva Esperanza on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 in Tijuana, Baja California. Colonia Nueva Esperanza has unpaved roads and many of the houses are built with wood scraps and have tarps as roofing
Mesa said he worries that his new neighbor will bring changes to the Colonia and that he might be asked to leave.
The coronavirus pandemic caused Dart Bowl owners John Donovan and Betty Ray to close their bowling alley's doors on July 17, 2020, after being in business for 62 years.
“We’re heartbroken, but the coronavirus has changed the business climate for now and we’re sad to see it go,” Donovan said.
Ray said she will miss the customers the most.
“A sad ending to a happy time,” Ray said.
Donovan agreed.
“There are people that have been customers of ours that we see every week for 30 years. ... We’re going to miss them,” he said.
Joe Ables, the owner of Saxon Pub, opened the venue 30 years ago. He now sits in his empty venue wondering why he and so many other local venues did not receive grant money from the city. Ables said he will be able to hold on for another six months. Saxon Pub is known for having live music every night.
Austin police watch items burn after protesters set personal belongings from a homeless camp on fire on May 30, 2020.
Cameron Gregg, the owner of TAG Spearguns, hunts a Pargo coconaco on Oct. 3, 2023, in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Gregg was on a week-long fishing trip promoting his new product.
Yoakum's Colt Lerch holds a hammer before running onto the field during a football game against Hallettsville at Bulldog Stadium on Friday, Sept. 23, 2016.
The Tijuana Little League team goofs around before baseball practice on Thursday, July 13, 2023 in Tijuana, Baja California. The team will represent Mexico in this year's Little League World Series.
Cameron Wilson, 26, practices on the newly painted basketball courts at Colina Del Sol Park on Thursday, July 29, 2021 in San Diego, CA. “It caught my eye immediately when I passed by,” Wilson said. “The vibrant colors.”
Kansas State's Zach Kokoska (28) attempts to slide home but Texas Longhorns' Silas Ardoin (4) tags him out during a baseball game at the UFCU Disch-Falk Field on April 11, 2021. Texas wins 9-2.