Photo: A bus carrying 30 migrants arrived in Los Angeles.

By Irfan KhanStaff Photographer

July 13, 2023 10:45 PM PT

Arriving in downtown L.A. after a 30-hour bus journey, 30 migrants sent from Texas were met by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics and aid group workers. They were then taken by local bus to St. Anthony’s Croatian Catholic Church, where a makeshift center was set up to help passengers reunite with family and access social services.

A woman holds a child wearing a protective mask

People gather outdoors after arriving at a church

A man wearing a bicycle helmet exits a bus

People gather outside a bus with an open door

People exit a bus while others stand outside

Irfan Khan

Irfan Khan was a staff photographer with the Los Angeles Times from 1996 to 2024. He previously served as a freelance photographer for the publication beginning in 1989. Khan started his career as a commercial photographer in 1973 in Pakistan and moved to Dubai in 1977, where he worked for an advertising agency and at a leading English newspaper. Khan’s assignments have taken across Southern California and the U.S. Internationally, he has photographed the Hajj in Saudi Arabia and war zones of the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to semi-classical music of the Indian subcontinent and playing cricket on Sundays.