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Gangs in Garden City

How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence are Changing America’s Suburbs

By Sarah Garland

For decades street gangs have been synonymous with inner cities, where drugs and drive-by shootings are a fact of daily life. But in a disturbing new trend two gangs—Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street—with their roots in Central America and Los Angeles, have ventured beyond our urban centers and into America’s most exclusive suburbs. Fearlessly reported and sensitively told, Gangs in Garden City unveils a hidden, troubling world that exists in the shadows of our own. Garland shows how the gangs next door will continue to spread—and thrive—if we do not act quickly to uproot them.



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