Bankrolling the Anti-Immigration Movement

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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 nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Newly unearthed documents show how an environmental-minded socialite became a nativist whose vision for strictly limiting immigration has, in many ways, reached a culmination in the Trump presidency.Groups that Mrs. May funded shared policy proposals with the Trump campaign, sent staff members to join the administration and have close ties to Stephen Miller, the architect of the president’s immigration agenda.

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0:33.0	Today, Newly Unurthedocuments tell the story of a rich, environmentally minded aeros,
0:47.4	who helped sow the seeds of the modern anti-immigration movement.
0:52.4	My colleague, Nick Koolish, tells Natalie Kutchoa about his investigation.
0:59.4	It's Monday, August 19.
1:09.4	Her name is pronounced Cordelia, Skafe May.
1:13.8	Skafe.
1:14.8	Skafe.
1:15.8	Tell me about Cordelia Skafe May's life as a young woman.
1:20.4	Celiame was born in Pittsburgh in 1928, and when the first photos of her appeared on the
1:26.5	front pages of newspapers around the country, they asked, could this be the richest baby
1:31.1	in the world?
1:36.4	She was an aeros to the Mellon family fortune.
1:39.3	They were barons of banking, titans of industry, with oil, aluminum, and all the sort of
1:45.4	might of Pittsburgh distilled into cold hard cash.
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