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His mother was taken to a psychiatric institution when he was seven and his father worked as a carpenter for notorious gangsters the Jones Boys.

It was a tough, beaten-down neighborhood on the south side of Chicago and gangsters controlled every block.

"I can make the confession now if you want. I had a death squad of seven, but they were not police, they were gangsters."

Thanh asked for asylum when he was interviewed by a British immigration official - explaining he had left Vietnam because he had got into debt to gangsters when his business failed.

But they're so hooked on the idea that migrants are marauding gangsters who are also inexplicably motivated beyond reason to vote, that they aren't thinking clearly on the subject.