Imagine deportation: When Nixon tried to pull a Trump on John Lennon
SalonIn trying to deport a Palestinian anti-war activist, Mahmoud Khalil, Donald Trump follows in the footsteps of another former Republican president. "Give Peace a Chance" One high-profile foreign visa holder, however, did catch the Nixon administration's attention when he arrived in New York in 1971. His song, "Give Peace a Chance," his first solo effort apart from the Beatles, had charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and went on to become an anthem for the rapidly growing anti-war movement in the U.S. Nixon's political ambitions and Lennon's past collide Nixon decided to run for reelection in 1972. Thanks to the 26th Amendment, it would be the first election in which 18 year olds could vote, and Nixon's campaign feared Lennon could lead a nationwide youth movement against him. "Selective deportation based upon secret political grounds" In October 1975, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Lennon could stay in the U.S.
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