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The bill before the Senate isn’t perfect. It’s a compromise. Nobody will get everything they want – not Democrats, not Republicans, not me Barack Obama – Weekly Address, on Immigration
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The bill is an actual compromise! In which participating parties actually cede on their bases' hardline positions!

IT’S LIKE WE HAVE A WORKING GOVERNMENT!

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And we took up the cause of “Dreamers,” the young people who were brought to this country as children. We said that if they’re able to meet certain criteria, we’d consider offering them the chance to come out of the shadows so they can continue to work here, and study here, and contribute to our communities legally Barack Obama – Weekly Address, on Immigration
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News Genius breaks down the DREAM Act here.

The immigration bill, in its current state, contains the most robust and generous version of the DREAM Act yet. In lieu of the DREAM Act’s passage last year, President ordered Department of Homeland Security to suspend deportations of DREAM-age immigrants.

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our out-of-date immigration system Barack Obama – Weekly Address, on Immigration
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The last meaningful Congressional action on immigration was the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which offered limited amnesty to many.

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In the next few days, America will take an important step towards fixing our broken immigration system. The entire United States Senate will begin debating a commonsense immigration reform bill that has bipartisan support. Barack Obama – Weekly Address, on Immigration
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After leaving committee, S.744 now goes to the Senate floor for debate.

The bipartisan bill was crafted by the Gang of Eight, a group of influential Senators with sway in their respective parties. However, other conservative Republican Senators took issue with what they call “closed-door” negotiations, offering a full-throated rebuttal, which News Genius breaks down here.

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Weekly Address, on Immigration Barack Obama – Weekly Address, on Immigration
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On the eve of the Senate taking on historic immigration reform, President Barack Obama offered this weekly address to make his case for the bipartisan bill’s passage.

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Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act The American People (Ft. Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Freedom Works, John Cusack & StopWatching.us) – Letter to Congress on NSA Spying
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In their 2003 Guide to the Patriot Act, Dahlia Lithwick and Julia Turner for Slate warned that:

Section 215 modifies the rules on records searches. Post-Patriot Act, third-party holders of your financial, library, travel, video rental, phone, medical, church, synagogue, and mosque records can be searched without your knowledge or consent, providing the government says it’s trying to protect against terrorism.

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phone records and Internet activity of people in the United States The American People (Ft. Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Freedom Works, John Cusack & StopWatching.us) – Letter to Congress on NSA Spying
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While the phone records surveillance tracks the numbers involved and the duration of the calls, the Internet surveillance program (PRISM) effectively reads and tracks everything you do on the Internet.

Goodie Mob was right: “Who’s that peaking in my [browser] window?”

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Dear Members of Congress The American People (Ft. Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Freedom Works, John Cusack & StopWatching.us) – Letter to Congress on NSA Spying
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According to President Obama, every member of Congress has been briefed on the phone records spying, and the relevant committees have been informed of the much broader Internet surveillance.

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provided by an intelligence contractor The American People (Ft. Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Freedom Works, John Cusack & StopWatching.us) – Letter to Congress on NSA Spying
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Hero extraordinaire Edward Snowden, an intelligence analyst who leaked the PRISM program to the public.

Read News Genius' breakdown of Snowden’s chilling interview with the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald.

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Guardian The American People (Ft. Electronic Frontier Foundation, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Freedom Works, John Cusack & StopWatching.us) – Letter to Congress on NSA Spying
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The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald broke the news of the NSA’s spying. If you weren’t reading him before, pick up your late pass and start.

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