Iehs: Nicholas Trajano Molnar, "On the Eve of Immigration Restriction"

This article explores the 1920s immigration and social policies of the outsider "law and order" candidate Leonard Wood and the lessons that can be drawn from his candidacy for our time. Wood gave a popular voice to an immigration framework which ultimately used region and race to severely reduce migration to the United States for the next half century. It compares this to the topics in 2016 Presidential campaign.