Editing Benjamin Netanyahu (section)

===Illegal immigration===
In his 1995 book ''Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism'', Netanyahu strongly argued that tightening immigration laws in the West is the most effective method to combat terrorism. "This era of immigration free-for-all should be brought to an end", he wrote in 1995.<ref name="fightingterroris00neta-142"/>

In 2012, the Netanyahu government passed the "Prevention of Infiltration Law", which mandated automatic detention of all people, including asylum-seekers, who enter Israel without permission. Amnesty International called it "an affront to international law".<ref>{{cite web |date=8 October 2012 |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/10/28/israel-asylum-seekers-blocked-border |title=Israel: Asylum Seekers Blocked at Border |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |access-date=16 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=10 January 2012 |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/new-israeli-detention-law-violates-asylum-seekers-rights-2012-01-10 |title=Israel: New detention law violates rights of asylum-seekers |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |access-date=16 September 2014 |archive-date=22 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822042351/http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/new-israeli-detention-law-violates-asylum-seekers-rights-2012-01-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Between 2009 and 2013, approximately 60,000 people [[Illegal immigration from Africa to Israel|crossed into Israel from various African countries]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Israel to jail illegal migrants for up to three years |first=Allyn |last=Fisher-Ilan |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-immigrants-idUKBRE8520DX20120603 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160102062917/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-immigrants-idUKBRE8520DX20120603 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 January 2016 |publisher=Reuters |date=3 June 2012 |access-date=16 March 2013}}</ref> Netanyahu said that "this phenomenon is very grave and threatens the social fabric of society, our national security and our national identity."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/20/israel-netanyahu-african-immigrants-jewish|title=Israel PM: illegal African immigrants threaten identity of Jewish state|work=The Guardian|date=20 May 2012|first=Harriet|last=Sherwood}}</ref> Many of these migrants are held in [[Immigration detention|detention camps]] in the Negev desert.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10743910/We-are-prisoners-here-say-migrants-at-Israels-desert-detention-camp.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/10743910/We-are-prisoners-here-say-migrants-at-Israels-desert-detention-camp.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title='We are prisoners here', say migrants at Israel's desert detention camp|first=Robert|last=Tait|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=4 April 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> When the Supreme Court of Israel declared the "Prevention of Infiltration Law" illegal for permitting immediate and indefinite detention of asylum seekers from Africa, Netanyahu requested new legislation to work around the Supreme Court ruling.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/1.620115|title=Jewish refugee organization slams Netanyahu on asylum seekers|work=Haaretz|date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

Netanyahu is critical of what he sees as the overly open immigration policy of EU nations. Netanyahu has urged the leaders of [[Hungary]], [[Slovakia]], [[Czech Republic]] and [[Poland]] to close their borders to [[illegal immigration]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-overheard-comments-netanyahu-lashes-eus-crazy-policy-on-israel|title=In hot mic comments, Netanyahu lashes EU's 'crazy' policy on Israel|last=Ahren|first=Raphael|date=19 July 2017|work=The Times of Israel}}</ref>