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Categories click to retract administrative policy procedures. The mexican mafia is a mexican american crime organization. Since then, he has worked closely, like ramon mendoza before him, with law enforcement. Wikimedia commons has media related to mexican mafia pages in category mexican mafia the following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. Tony manzellas prosecution of a slough of gang and mafia related killings. Tony rafael discusses his book the mexican mafia youtube. Fbi ninetynine members and associates of mexican mafia. Despite its name, the mexican mafia did not originate in mexico, and is entirely a u. Law enforcement officials report that the mexican mafia is the most powerful. The mexican mafia is a fairly small prison gang perhaps 150300 made members and it has significant operational control only within prisons in southern california yet the mexican mafia is extremely powerful. Feb 23, 2008 why would people who live there openly support them when preteens are being drawn into the gang life. The prison, originally built to house young male offenders, soon became the home of many mexicanamerican street gang members mostly from barrios, or neighborhoods, in east lost angeles.
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