In another blog for The Huffington Post, Yale Press author Amitai Etzioni discusses “The Immigration Hypocrisy.” He begins:

The United States is spending scores of billions of dollars to build fences and to train and enlarge the border patrol in an effort to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country, especially from south of the border. However, if an immigrant has few extra bucks and a bit of know-how, he or she can avoid the hot desert, the dangerous coyotes, and possible confrontations with the Minutemen or border patrol agents. They can simply fly to the US, enjoying complimentary drinks and munchies on one of the numerous airlines, and, once their visa has expired, they can just stay. No one knows exactly how many of the 300 million (I kid you not) visitors who came to the US simply refuse to leave when their time is up, but the number is very substantial. (Estimates vary between 60% to “only” 40% of all illegal immigrants).

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Yale University Press recently released Amitai Etzioni’s Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy.

Few would argue against the need for change in American foreign policy, but what approach would be best? Amitai Etzioni here proposes a foreign policy that is both pragmatic and morally sound—one in which basic security is the first priority. His ideas ring with the sound of reason, and his book should be required reading for every leader, policy maker and voter in America.

Amitai Etzioni is a Professor of International Relations at the George Washington University. Among his books are From Empire to Community, Political Unification Revisited, Winning Without War, and The Common Good. He served as a Senior Aid to the White House and as President of the American Sociological Association. He taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Berkeley. He was listed as one of the top 100 American intellectuals in Richard Posner’s book Public Intellectuals.