From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarino. This is Daily.

Today, with a silent request at an all-time high, the Trump administration is telling migrants

to wait in Mexico. Natalie Kittereff speaks with immigration reporter Zola Mkina Young's about

how that policy could fundamentally change US immigration. It's Thursday, June 20th.

So back in March, I was in San Diego right near the Tijuana border. I'm the Homeland Security

correspondent for the New York Times and a big part of that is covering immigration. So I knew

that there was this surge in Central American families, migrants coming to the border to seek asylum.

So all I was sent down there to report on that. And I ended up going to this shelter in Tijuana.

Walk to the back. I remember there were milk crates kind of spread around and there was some

laundry drying above us on a string and there were many many families also in the shelter.

So we make our way to the back and my translator and my photographer and I sit down and we get ready

to hear the story of a man named Selvano Varado. So can you ask him where he's from and why he chose to

be? He starts out by telling me that he worked in a farming collective in Honduras.

And at one point he discovered that the leaders of this collective were stealing money from the

farmers and he confronted them. What they said in return was essentially if you expose us,

we're going to kill you and your family.

And so he and his family decided to leave. The friend told him you don't have any other options.

You can't stay in Honduras, you can't stay in Guatemala. The only option is to flee to the US.

They fled through Central America to Mexico and they made it to the US border and he claimed

asylum fully prepared to be detained while his case wound its way through the immigration system.

But instead he was sent back to Mexico.

So how did Selvano end up back in Mexico? Walk me through what happened here.

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