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why a banking heiress spent her fortune on keeping immigrants out

An heiress to the Mellon banking and industrial fortune with a half-billion dollars at her disposal, May helped create what would become the modern anti-immigration movement. She bankrolled the founding and operation of the nation’s three largest restrictionist groups — the Federation for..

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