A.M. Links: Obama Vows Executive Action on Immigration, Pentagon ‘Certainly Considering’ Ground Troops in Iraq, Majority of Americans Oppose Net Neutrality

  • President Barack Obama is waving away Republican
    opposition to his proposed executive action on immigration. “They
    have the ability to fix the system,”
    Obama said
    . “What they don’t have the ability to do is expect
    me to stand by with a broken system in perpetuity.”
  • “The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of
    mobile phones through devices deployed on airplanes that mimic
    cellphone towers, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that is
    snagging a
    large number of innocent Americans
    , according to people
    familiar with the operations.”
  • Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
    says the Pentagon is
    “certainly considering”
    sending grounds troops to Iraq.
  • In a newly released video, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
    urges his supporters to
    launch attacks
    in Saudi Arabia.
  • According to a
    new poll
    , 61 percent of Americans “strongly oppose so-called
    ‘net neutrality’ efforts that would allow the federal government to
    regulate the Internet.”

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