Mishpacha traveled to the Mexican border to put a human face on the crisis playing out just 500 feet from the US Photos: Yossi Percia On Site Report by Yochonon Donn, Tijuana, Mexico Luis Morenas stared at me in disbelief when I asked why he left his homeland of Honduras to spend months in a Mexican shantytown waiting to cross the border into the United States. “El presidente gave a promise on February 19 that this was going to be open,” he said simply, referring to President Joe Biden. “The president made a promise that he was going to help the immigrants. We are just waiting.”