Analysis: Trump’s threat to close the U.S.-Mexico border sounds like this 1969 Nixon operation
In 1969, President Richard M. Nixon threatened to close to the U.S.-Mexico border. President Trump did the same thing last week. By Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin Reporter covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow March 31 at 11:53 AM To get Mexico to bend to the will of the United States, the U.S. president threatened to close the southern border.This past Friday, President Trump took to Twitter to threaten to close the U.S.
— ABC News Politics March 31, 2019 Trump, as immigration reporter Dara Lind explained at Vox, cannot physically stop anyone from illegally entering the United States, but he can close ports of entry, which would prevent “people and goods from legally entering the country.” Political symbolism is similarly thought to have been the motivating factor for Nixon’s Operation Intercept.
At the time, newspapers deemed it the “largest peacetime search and seizure operation in history.” The operation was planned by G. Gordon Liddy, the former FBI agent who later helped orchestrate the Watergate break-in; the State Department was effectively shut out of the planning process for the operation.
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