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Maya Averbuch

Maya Averbuch is a journalist based in Mexico City.

Maya Averbuch is a journalist based in Mexico City.


Migrants sitting and laying on mats are shown spread across a high school gymnasium floor.

How Ciudad Juarez is bracing for more migrants under US ‘remain in Mexico’ policy

March 22, 2019Global Politics

The border city is a case study in how Mexican municipal and state-level officials are charged with handling the effects of increasingly restrictive US immigration policies largely on their own.

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