While Puerto Ricans have held an annual parade for years along the prime real estate of 5th Avenue, some of New York's most recent immigrants celebrated Mexican Independence Day, September 16th, along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. The organizers of the March, La Asociacion Tepeyac, contextualized the march like this:
"The March for Mexican Independence doesn't only commemorate the beginning of the struggle for Mexican Independence from September 15th and 16th of 1810, but also the continuation of the resistance and the strength of the Mexican immigrants in New York who have had to leave their homeland to look for their dignity and their independence."
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