Bankrolling the Anti-Immigration Movement

<p>The New York Times investigated how Cordelia Scaife May, an heiress to the Mellon family’s banking and industrial fortune, used her wealth to sow the seeds of the modern anti-immigration movement — and of Trump administration policy. Guests: Natalie Kitroeff, a business reporter for The Times, spoke with Nicholas Kulish, who covers immigration issues. For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily" target="_blank">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Newly unearthed documents show<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/anti-immigration-cordelia-scaife-may.html" target="_blank"> how an environmental-minded socialite became a nativist</a> whose vision for strictly limiting immigration has, in many ways, reached a culmination in the Trump presidency.</li><li>Groups that Mrs. May funded shared policy proposals with the Trump campaign, sent staff members to join the administration and have close ties to<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank"> Stephen Miller</a>, the architect of the president’s immigration agenda.</li></ul>