So we have just landed in Tapachula and it could not be more different than what is.

It's Saturday, January 11th, 2020, and I've just landed in a small airport in Tapachula on Mexico's southern border with Guatemala.

Literally, we went from the northernmost border in Mexico to the southernmost border.

We crossed the entire country of Mexico.

I checked my phone. No messages. Inside the airport, I rushed to

baggage claim. I'm recording just in case he's outside. I don't see anybody. I look at every young man I pass, hoping he'll be here, waiting for me.

He's nowhere.

Taxi, good after all I was hoping for was that he would be here.

And he's not. He's just not.

From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Innojosa. In our last episode, we reported about how the real wall that Trump has built is a paper wall,

a wall of policies that push asylum seekers out of the U.S. and into Mexico.

We visited the northern border and met some of the migrants

stuck waiting for the chance to ask for asylum in the U.S.,

a place they believe they'll find safety.

Now I've come to Tapachula on Mexico's southern border.

It's another city filled with asylum seekers from all over the world.

I'm here to find out why so many migrants are waiting here,

almost 2,000 miles away from the United States.

And there's another reason.

I'm here to meet up with a 23-year-old Honduran migrant named Josue,

whose story I've been following for a year now.

We plan to meet up here, but for the last few days,

...