"Podem ainda não estar a ver as coisas à superficie, mas por baixo já está tudo a arder" - Y. B. Mangunwijaya, escritor indonésio, 16 de Julho de 1998.
As roughly 4,500 children wait in Border Patrol facilities unequipped for long-term detention, with some sleeping on floors, the U.S. has rushed to open holding sites across the country and release children more quickly.
Cardboard cutouts of U.S. President Joe Biden, center, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, back right, and former U.S. President Donald Trump, back left, are used as physical distancing markers at a noodle restaurant inside a shopping mall amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Asylum seekers waiting in Mexico gather at the border in Tijuana. Many have waited months in Mexican border cities for the chance to have their asylum cases heard.
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* At first flash of Eden, we race down to the sea Standing there on freedom's shore
"A youth rests on his empty oxygen cylinder waiting for a refill shop to open in the San Juan de Lurigancho neighborhood of Lima, Peru, as the lack of medical oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients continues to be the norm nationwide."
"Migrants cross the Chucunaque river after walking for five days in the Darien Gap, in Bajo Chiquito village, Darien province, Panama on February 10, 2021, on their way to the US."
"Locked up all day in a tiny, squalid hut with barely enough space to lie down, Rauf is a prisoner to his mental health issues and carers whose only way of coping is to shut him away."