Senate Likely to Vote on Immigration Overhaul Before July 4

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, on Friday scheduled a vote to end debate and take up a hard-fought border security deal on Monday, all but ensuring that the Senate will vote on an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws before the Fourth of July recess.

On Monday, the Senate will turn its full attention to the border security agreement, hammered out by Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota, both Republicans, which would cost roughly $30 billion and create what some legislators are calling “a border surge” by doubling the border control force.

The plan is another step towards assuaging the concerns of some Republicans who are reluctant to support immigration legislation â€" offering a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the country â€" without further strengthening border security. On Thursday, M.. Corker said he believed that his amendment could earn the support of roughly 15 Republicans â€" a coup for the bipartisan group of senators that drafted the original legislation and is hoping to pass the bill through the Senate with strong bipartisan support.

The Corker-Hoeven plan would increase the border patrol force to 40,000 agents from 21,000, and require 700 miles of fencing. Their provision would also allocate $3.2 billion to a high-tech border surveillance system. It would also establish a mandatory electronic employment verification system and a visa entry/exit system at all air and sea ports, in order to prevent immigrants from overstaying their visas.

Although the deal was announced on Thursday, the senators did not officially file their amendment until Friday.

The plan also includes measures by other Republican senators, including Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Mr. Hatch’s provisions would prevent unauthorized workers from qualifyi! ng for Social Security benefits and prevent noncitizens from accessing federal welfare funds. Mr. Hatch plans to push for a vote next week on another amendment of his, which would require immigrants to pay five years of federal back taxes before receiving legal status.

“I’m proud of the work these two Senators have done with the sponsors of the bill, and the contributions of all those who have played a part in this process,” Mr. Hatch said in a written statement. “I’m pleased these two common-sense amendments I put forward limiting public benefits to newly legalized immigrants are a part of this package as well.”

Some advocates of the legislation worry that the Corker-Hoeven plan to enhance border security would be too expensive and would amount to a militarization of the Southern border.

“This sort of expenditure translates not just to wasted taxpayer money, but to a rollback on the American values for due process and equal treatment for millions of Americans living along ou border,” Marielena Hincapié, the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, said in a statement. “We are deeply concerned that in their zeal to score a major political win, senators allowed the fundamental freedoms of border communities and aspiring citizens to be trampled.

The Corker-Hoeven plan, however, is likely to serve as one of the final additions to an immigration bill that is already 867 pages. The agreement placates reluctant Republicans but strengthens border security in a way that Senate Democrats still view as achievable.

Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, on Friday expressed her support for the agreement.

“The president has made clear that commonsense immigration reform legislation must include measures to strengthen border security, create a path to earned citizenship, crack down on employers that hire undocumented workers, and streamline our legal immigration system so everyone is playing by the same set of rules,” Ms. Nap! olitano s! aid in a statement. “The border security amendment agreed to by a bipartisan group of senators is in line with that criteria, it will devote important additional resources to the robust border security system this administration has put in place and strengthen what was already an unmatched piece of border security legislation.”

Q&A: Streaming Netflix Video on Multiple Devices

Q.

I have the Netflix streaming plan, along with a Roku box and a couple of tablet computers with the Netflix app. Can all three be used at the same time to stream movies?

A.

If you have the standard $7.99 monthly Watch Instantly plan for Netflix streaming, you can have six different devices registered to your account, divided among computers, mobile apps for phone and tablet, set-top boxes like the Roku player or Apple TV, game consoles, TiVo recorders, Blu-Ray players and any other device that has Netflix capability. However, you can watch video on only two different devices at the same time.

If you try to stream on more than two screens, you may see an error message about your Netflix account’s being in use on other devices. If you try to stream video on two devices and ge the error message, stop streaming everywhere, then try again on the screen that got the message. (It may be possible that a third device crashed with a sudden disconnection from the Netflix service â€" and is still being tallied in the stream count â€" but this should fix itself within an hour or two.)

Netflix began to offer upgrades to its basic streaming plan this past spring. For $11.99 a month, you can stream on four devices at once instead of two. To upgrade, log into your Netflix account on the Web and click the Your Account link in the top right corner. In the Your Streaming Plan area of the page, click the “Change plan” link and select the $11.99 monthly option instead.

The Early Word: Prisoner Exchange

In Today’s Times:

• The fate of peace talks with the Taliban may hinge on whether the United States exchanges five prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for an American prisoner of war, a move a Taliban spokesman said would be a way to “build bridges of confidence” between the two parties, Charlie Savage reports.

• As Congress works through the proposal that could become the first immigration overhaul in a quarter-century, the White House has quietly set up a war room on Capitol Hill to coordinate strategy and help secure passage of the legislation, Michael D. Shear reports.

• Two Senate Republicans emphasizing the divide between him and the more conservative faction of his party, Ron Nixon reports.

Washington Happenings:

• On Friday President Obama is expected to announce the nomination of James B. Comey, a senior Justice Department official who served under President George W. Bush, to be the next F.B.I. director.

• In light of the recent scandal at the Internal Revenue Service, the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, will give a speech about “Washington’s ongoing assault on free speech” at the American Enterprise Institute at 10 a.m.

• The advisory committee of the Congressional Internet Caucus will hold an event on privacy and the National Security Agency at noon.

The Early Word: Prisoner Exchange

In Today’s Times:

• The fate of peace talks with the Taliban may hinge on whether the United States exchanges five prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for an American prisoner of war, a move a Taliban spokesman said would be a way to “build bridges of confidence” between the two parties, Charlie Savage reports.

• As Congress works through the proposal that could become the first immigration overhaul in a quarter-century, the White House has quietly set up a war room on Capitol Hill to coordinate strategy and help secure passage of the legislation, Michael D. Shear reports.

• Two Senate Republicans emphasizing the divide between him and the more conservative faction of his party, Ron Nixon reports.

Washington Happenings:

• On Friday President Obama is expected to announce the nomination of James B. Comey, a senior Justice Department official who served under President George W. Bush, to be the next F.B.I. director.

• In light of the recent scandal at the Internal Revenue Service, the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, will give a speech about “Washington’s ongoing assault on free speech” at the American Enterprise Institute at 10 a.m.

• The advisory committee of the Congressional Internet Caucus will hold an event on privacy and the National Security Agency at noon.