[wideawake]

Al Capone legally immigrated to the United States in the early 1900's

Al Capone was born in NYC on January 17, 1899.

He was not an immigrant of any kind.

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Uh-oh...

[socialismisinsidious]

You are correct. When looking that up I came across this:

Capone controlled speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries at a reported income of $100,000,000 a year WOW! Big bucks now, really big bucks then...no wonder Uncle Sam was after him..they wanted a piece of that pie.

This is pretty funny too: The popular belief in the 1920s and 30s was that illegal gambling earnings were not taxable income. However, the 1927 Sullivan ruling claimed that illegal profits were in fact taxable. The government wanted to indict Capone for income tax evasion, Capone never filed an income tax return, owned nothing in his own name, and never made a declaration of assets or income.
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone/cpn3.html

so that is the key: become so rich that you own nothing and have no need for an income, but then again Mr Capone got caught.

[PzLdr]

Absolutely. Otherwise he would have been deported like Charlie Lucky, who was an immigrant [although he's buried here].

[justshutupandtakeit]

Please don't confuse the Hysterics with facts.

[Daniel T. Zanoza]

There are a number of books which state Al Capone was an immigrant. But there historians who do say Capone was born in the U.S. No matter what the case, the idea of my column was to illustrate laws pertaining to legal American citizens--whether immigrants or not--do not apply to those who came to the United States illegally.
Daniel T. Zanoza