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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)
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Police forensics officers arrive at the La Rochefoucauld school on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Paris after a man committed suicide at the private Catholic institution by shooting himself in the head. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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**FILE** In this photo proved by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an unidentified immigrant is taken into custody in Dallas on Sept. 8, 2012. (Associated Press/ICE)
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**FILE** Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody on March 30, 2012, as part of a nationwide immigration sweep in Chula Vista, Calif. (Associated Press)
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A Rohingya boy, center left, touches a face of a another boy as a truck leave a camp for displaced Rohingya people in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Myanmar, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Members of the displaced Rohingya minority started to evacuate for safer shelters ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Mahasen. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
