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Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden on Monday outlined a health care proposal that ties him to President Obama's signature initiative and distances him from rivals in the race who want to replace the current system with "Medicare for All." (Associated Press/File)

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The abortion message was delivered at daily roundtables led by Lizz Winstead, a co-creator of “The Daily Show” who has become an abortion rights activist and leads the Abortion Access Front, formerly known as Lady Parts Justice League. (Associated Press file photograph)

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In this Oct. 22, 2018, photo U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surround and detain a person during a raid in Richmond, Va. ICE's enforcement and removal operations, like the five-person field office team outside Richmond, hunt people in the U.S. illegally, some of whom have been here for decades, working and raising families. Carrying out President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration policies has exposed ICE to unprecedented public scrutiny and criticism, even though officers say they're doing largely the same job they did before the election, prioritizing criminals. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Screenshot of video shot by Matt Mauro, an anchor and reporter at @KDVR FOX31 and @channel2kwgn during the protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Aurora, Colorado, on July 13, 2019. (Image: Courtesy of Matt Mauro. https://twitter.com/mattmauronews/status/1149872804625432576)

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In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

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In this May 25, 2010, photo, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent walks down the aisle among shackled Mexican immigrants a boarded a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter jet for deportation in the air between Chicago, Il. and Harlingen, Texas. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Social media gets a White House boost on Thursday. President Trump has called in conservative social media mavens for a summit to analyze the state of the online news universe. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on Hungarian immigration policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Illustration on immigration policy and job growth by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Salih Hudayar (left) and Kyle Olbert rally outside the Squire Patton Boggs offices in D.C. on Wednesday. Save the Persecuted Christians organized demonstrations calling on the firm to stop representing governments that persecute religious minorities. (Photo by Christopher Vondracek/ The Washington Times)

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Asylum seekers cross the border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, joined at left by Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., listen during the roll call as the House Oversight and Reform Committee votes 24-15 to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents related to the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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In this Nov. 16, 2018, file photo, an officer watches as immigrants who entered the United States illegally are deported on a flight to El Salvador by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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Two-thirds of all U.S. voters now frown upon accepting people with "questionable" asylum claims, according to a new survey. (Associated Press)

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CNN political contributor Carl Bernstein discusses the Trump administration, July 7, 2019. (Image: CNN screenshot)

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Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (shown) of Minnesota have clashed with their more left-wing Democratic rivals on health care, immigration and education policies. Their policies on these issues are more moderate. (Associated Press photographs)

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New Jersey senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, escorts migrants across the United States - Mexico border to help them ask for asylum, in El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, July 3 2019. Booker is the second 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to visit Juarez, after former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke made the trip Sunday, also to help draw attention to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)

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Illustration on the vote strategy for illegal aliens by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Counter protesters at the "Demand Free Speech" rally in Washington, D.C., on July 6, 2019, attempting to block a reporter, Julio Rosas of The Washington Examiner, from covering their demonstration. (Moss Brennan/The Washington Times)

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Illustration on the census by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times