3 Times Previous Presidents Closed the Southern Border

From The Daily Signal.com (Nov. 26, 2018):

On three past occasions, presidents temporarily closed the southern border, something President Donald Trump threatened Monday to do permanently.
Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan both closed the border over drug-related issues that halted entry from Mexico into the United States.
President Lyndon B. Johnson, shortly after taking office amid crisis, closed the border after the assassination of his predecessor, John F. Kennedy.
While Johnson’s example was unique, all three cases dealt with a president’s authority to act on the border during an emergency. The Trump administration has determined that the series of “caravans” of thousands of Central American migrants headed to the border is an emergency.
With Nixon in 1969 and Reagan in 1985—as is the case today—the United States was trying to pressure the Mexican government’s law enforcement into stepping up its efforts.
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Trump already has put the military at the border and said it is authorized to use lethal force if necessary. But the administration hasn’t sealed off the entire southern border as was done in past closings in attempts to block all entry into the United States.
1. LBJ Seals Border After JFK Assassination
In November 1963, the U.S. Immigration Service closed the border along Mexico to keep anyone from entering or exiting the country.
The move occurred as a national emergency in response to the murder of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. The fact that the assassination occurred in a border state made the matter more pronounced.
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2. Nixon and Operation Intercept
During President Richard Nixon’s first year in office, in September 1969, his administration implemented “Operation Intercept.”
Myles J. Ambrose, then commissioner of the Customs Bureau, launched the operation that both The Washington Post and The Boston Globe—left-leaning newspapers—deemed to be successful in accomplishing a larger goal.
This came when the Nixon administration determined that the Mexican government was taking little action to stop marijuana trafficking from Mexico into the United States.
Federal agents searched vehicles, and reportedly strip-searched some drivers, near U.S. ports of entry at the Mexican border, causing a massive traffic backup that left motorists in a standstill for hours.
Nixon launched the mission as a surprise on a Sunday afternoon, with thousands of U.S. agents showing up to reinforce the border.
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3. Reagan and Operation Camarena
During the first year of his second term, President Ronald Reagan enacted a similar policy, this time using the military at the border after a Mexican drug cartel abducted a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
Customs Service Commissioner William von Raab supervised “Operation Camarena,” launched in February 1985 two weeks after gunmen abducted DEA agent Enrique Camarena, for whom the operation was named.
The stated goal of the mission, which effectively shut down all U.S. ports of entry along the border with Mexico, was to try to find Camarena or obtain information and those with information about what happened to him. [read more]

Not a bad idea to do it temporarily until the situation is under control. It also might make Mexico to re-evaluate it’s situation.
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