Give Us Your Cheap Labor

There's a classic scene at the beginning of The Godfather II in which young Vito Andolini passes through Ellis Island's immigration line. It is there that, due to an immigration officer's carelessness, he is given the mistaken surname of Corleone, which is actually the village of his birth. Moments later, frightened young Vito is informed that he must spend a long stretch in confinement, due to the fact that he is suffering from tuberculosis. The whole process takes mere seconds, as the...