Immigration and demographics

FOR USE IN RELATED STORY ONLY -- Tony Short and Hazem Amiry became close friends in Afghanistan. After Kabul fell nearly seven years later, a promise Short made brought them even closer together.

A friendship forged in wartime changed their lives -- and gave them hope

This is the story, in their own words, of two men that America's longest war brought together — two men who refused to give up even when many things they believed in were falling apart.
Ukrainians wait before being allowed to cross the San Ysidro Port of Entry into the United States to seek asylum on March 22, 2022 in Tijuana, Mexico. U.S. authorities have recently been allowing Ukrainian refugees to enter the U.S. at the Southern border in Tijuana with permission to remain in the U.S. on humanitarian parole for one year.