Mexicans Grapple With Unique Problems As Immigrant Group, Consul General Says

“If young Mexicans, who have the city’s highest dropout rates, are not kept in school, they are likely to join the Central American gangs spreading in the city, the consul general of Mexico in New York, Arturo Sarukhan, warned a group of city educators.

“This stops being an issue of education and starts being an issue of social assimilation and of crime,” Mr. Sarukhan said Friday at a symposium on Mexican students hosted by New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education.”

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