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**FILE** Roberto Morales, 25, holds a sign representing a permanent resident card while attending the "Rally for Citizenship" on Capitol Hill on April 10, 2013, in support of immigration reform. (Associated Press)

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Tourists take pictures as police officers stand guard in front of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The church was evacuated after a man committed suicide in the 850-year-old monument and tourist attraction. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Senate Judiciary Committee members (from left) Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, and Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, confer Monday on the landmark immigration bill. (Associated Press)

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Ruth Moore of Milbridge, Maine, who was raped twice while serving in the Navy, testifies before the Veterans Affairs' subcommittee on disability assistance and memorial affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, introduced an amendment to the immigration bill that would prevent changes to the asylum or refugee systems until after an audit of what went wrong in Boston. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this May 8, 2013, photo released by the Iranian Mehr News Agency, men hold a man hanged in public, to prevent his execution, after he was pardoned by the family of the policeman he was convicted of killing, in Mashhad, northeastern Iran. Under Sharia law, a victim's family has the option to forgive the criminal rather than allowing the perpetrator to be executed. (Associated Press)