well, as long as you have a Sicilian mafia, you are going to have an American mafia. Why? Because...

1)Sicilians are big in heroin,

2)America is one of the largest mass markets for every type of good...including narcotics,

3)the Sicilian mafia will want to deal (drugs) with Italians in America instead of some other group who they don't know as well and cannot trust as well,

4)the "American" mafia will never allow the Sicilian mafia to inport drugs domestically without going through the Americans first. So the idea that Americans will drop out completely from the drug game and let the Sicilians rake in all the dough is inconceivable,

Therefore all of the drug ports will stay active with Cosa Nostra activity: New York, Florida, Detroit (Lake St Clair, which borders Canada), Chicago (Lake Michigan which leads out to Canada), *ETC*. WHY? Because it's their nature. They could never stand to see another organized crime group take over the ports they control or partly control. There's just too much money involved.



(I have used Sicilian members of the underworld to make my point, but as we know, in Europe, and in Italy in particular, the Sicilian mafia is not the sole ethnic based criminal organization.)