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CBP Border Patrol agents rescue migrants after failed human smuggling attempt in El Paso, Texas. These photos represent an incident in March 2010 involving a human smuggling attempt of 10 undocumented persons from Mexico. The maze of storm drainage tunnels is particularly dangerous during the monsoon season in south El Paso when migrants become trapped underground. Photographer: Humberto Gonzales
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations Agents, with the help of the Coast Guard, interdicted a recreational vessel carrying nine undocumented migrants. A CBP A-Star helicopter A-Star helicopter assisted with vessel traffic and directed agents operating an AMO SAFE Boat to the suspect vessel. Agents arrived on scene to discover an unlit, ill-equipped and overloaded vessel with nine persons on board. AMO agents determined that all passengers were in the country illegally. Photo provided by: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Fire trucks and ambulances stand in the city center of Ansbach, Germany, on Monday morning after a man was killed when an explosive device he was believed to be carrying went off near an open-air music festival, injuring 10 others. (News5 via Associated Press)
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EPA Smog Test on Humans Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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A large plume of smoke from a wildfire rises near Highway 1, burning five miles south of Carmel, Calif., on Friday, July 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Armed police move past onlooking media responding to a shooting at a shopping center in Munich, Germany, Friday, July 22, 2016. Munich police confirm shots have been fired at Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping center but say they don't have any details about casualties. Police are responding in large numbers. (AP Photo/APTV)
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Police in Munich, Germany respond to a shooting at a shopping center in Munich, Friday July 22, 2016. Munich police confirm shots have been fired at Olympia Einkaufszentrum shopping center but say they don't have any details about casualties. Police are responding in large numbers. (AP Photo/APTV)
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In this framegrab taken from APTN, a soldier walks along a street in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday July 20, 2016. Police in Brussels say they arrested a man acting suspiciously and wearing heavy clothes with wires hanging out, in the area of place Monnaie. Police closed the area and evacuated people surrounding the area. (AP Photo/APTN)
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Garry Marshall arrives at the Television Academy's 70th Anniversary at The Television Academy on Thursday, June 2, 2016, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)
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"The plan will affect every single commuter. Even repairs outside of the District will affect us," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday at a press event at the Eastern Market Metro station, which will be affected by the second phase of the transit agency's "SafeTrack" plan. "We believe Washington, D.C., will be affected by all 15 surges." (Associated Press)
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Illustration on impending U.S. government financial collapse by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Burning Book Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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United Airlines has suspended pilot and Republican lawmaker Michael Folk after he wrote on social media that Hillary Clinton should be hanged for treason. (Facebook/@Michael Folk)
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A bulldozer pushes a dead humpback whale that washed ashore at Dockweiler Beach into the ocean along the Los Angeles coast on Friday, July 1, 2016. The whale floated in Thursday evening. It is approximately 40 feet long and is believed to have been between 10 to 30 years old. Marine animal authorities will try to determine why the animal died. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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A firefighter battles flames near the Las Flores Canyon area west of Goleta, Calif., June 16, 2016. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP) ** FILE **
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In this Jan. 21, 2014, file photo, a damaged car is seen at the scene of a fatal road rage incident near the corner of Tropicana Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard in Las Vegas. Authorities say a man shot a motorist to death in a vehicle with two children in the backseat in an apparent road-rage confrontation during rush-hour several miles west of the Las Vegas Strip. Nearly eight of every 10 U.S. drivers admit expressing anger, aggression or road rage at least once in the previous year, according to a new survey released Thursday, July 13, 2016, by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. (John Locher/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)
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A suicide bomber struck a parking lot near the Prophet's Mosque in Medina in one of three terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia on July 4. The blast set several cars on fire, killed four security officers and injured five others. (Associated Press)
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Texas' "10 Most Wanted" list. (The Texas Department of Public Safety)
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Passengers push their carry-on belongings onto an automated conveyer belt at a newly designed passenger screening lane unveiled at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta in this May 2016 file photo. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) **FILE**