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Do you support the Patriot Act?

The Patriot Act was enacted in direct response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, as well as the 2001 anthrax attacks, with the stated goal of dramatically strengthening national security. Opponents of the law have criticized its provision for indefinite detention of immigrants; permission to law enforcement to search a home or business without the owner’s or the occupant’s consent or knowledge under certain circumstances; the expanded use of National Security Letters, which allows the Federal Bureau…  

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 @9YNLL53Libertarian from Texas  answered…11mos11MO

Yes, but we should not persecute people based on preconceived stereotypes such as their race & religion just because a crime was committed by someone of that race & religion

 @95LTZ2R from Wisconsin  answered…3yrs3Y

I support the act if it isn't bringing harm to any person. All options should be looked at before deporting someone. They came to America for a better life.

 @93X367J from California  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, and allow further evaluation of the situation without prejudice or discrimination. Privacy should still be of essence, however if there is probable cause that individuals or groups will cause any snippet of crimes against humanity, that’s when action should be taken place.

 @8WTJ6R4 from Colorado  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but only deport immigrants if there is undeniable evidence of planning terrorism or did terrorism

 @8SVXH6N from Colorado  answered…4yrs4Y

No, and abolish the government

 @8STTVZC from Idaho  answered…4yrs4Y

No, end all government surveillance

 @8PFDRMRDemocrat from New Jersey  answered…5yrs5Y

I don't have a definitive answer to this question.

 @8NHVW5J from New Jersey  answered…5yrs5Y

Only if the country is okay with the government surveilling

 @9BGFVMP from Missouri  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, But No Surveillance In Homes Or On Devices

 @98LYC2G from South Carolina  answered…3yrs3Y

Communist revolutionaries should not be wiretapped.

 @8LFX8XHIndependent from New York  answered…5yrs5Y

i don’t have enough knowledge to answer

  @8P6PWZP from Louisiana  answered…5yrs5Y

No, the government should stay out of our bedrooms.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…11mos11MO

Trump’s Doom vs. Harris’s Hope as America Decides Its Fate

Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris closed out their campaigns in the final hours before Election Day in starkly different moods: The former president, often appearing drained at arenas that were not filled, claimed that the country was on the brink of ruin, while the vice president promised a more united future as energized supporters chanted alongside her, “We’re not going back.”In stop after stop, the presidential rivals essentially offered up two competing versions of reality on Monday and into early Tuesday. Mr. Trump repeatedly raised the specter of unchecked immigration and the dangers of Democratic policies as he spoke to crowds in North Carolina and Pennsylvania before closing with a midnight rally in Michigan.With a comparatively more optimistic message, Ms. Harris crisscrossed Pennsylvania, which holds 19 electoral votes that could decide the race. Stopping in Scranton, Allentown and Pittsburgh before a nighttime rally in Philadelphia, Ms. Harris talked about bolstering the economy and restoring federal abortion rights. She asserted that Americans were “exhausted” and ready to move on from the politics of the past decade.About 30 miles to the southwest, Mr. Trump was in Reading, Pa., broadly portraying undocumented immigrants as mentally ill criminals and calling those accused of crimes “savages” and “animals.”Both leaned on Hispanic supporters as they tried to rally Latino voters. The pro-Harris rapper Fat Joe, who is Puerto Rican, practically shamed his fellow Latinos in Allentown as he asked, “Where’s your pride?” Mr. Trump, still facing fallout from his rally in New York at which a comedian called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” brought Roberto Clemente Jr., the son of the Puerto Rican baseball legend, to the stage at a rally in Pittsburgh.But Mr. Trump, reaching the end of a grueling marathon of a campaign that began in 2022, looked visibly weary, battling fatigue in front of listless crowds, though he was relatively more upbeat and energized in Michigan. Ms. Harris, still appearing fresh after a three-month sprint, appealed for unity and pressed the contrast to her rival without uttering his name.“The measure of a true leader is based not on who you beat down,” she said. “It is based on who you lift up.”Despite the sharply different tones, polls suggest the race remains tight, with the final New York Times/Siena College surveys showing the candidates tied or holding only narrow leads in all of the seven battleground states.

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