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, America’s most organized crime group, has dominated the crime scene for centuries. It’s largest profits come from drugs and gambling. Other forms of illegal profit come from loan-sharking, labor racketeering, hijacking, pornography, and prostitution. is a ....

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.... cancer, the Sicilian approach to crime was metastasizing, sending out its aberrant cells to colonize social tissues elsewhere, especially in the United States” (True Crime). Immigration to the United States, from Italy, began around 1870. “ Of the approximately 5.3 million that have followed, approximately 25 percent came from Sicily” (Italian 4). The mass immigration took place for many reasons. Many wanted to move because of poverty and rampant inflation. Others wanted to move because of social and economic immobility. Another reason for immigration to the United States was because Mussolini thought that the Mafia was a threat to his fa ....