Social Issues

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Illustration on homelessness by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Activists for migrant rights surround a group of Honduran asylum seekers camped on U.S. soil at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry, seen from Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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Honduran asylum seekers cover his faces surrounded by activists for migrant rights on U.S. soil at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry, seen from Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

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Newly inaugurated President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waxed poetic about the plan to provide jobs so people won't have to emigrate. "I have a dream that I want to see become a reality ... that nobody will want to go work in the United States anymore," he said. (Associated Press)

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Pacifica Forum founder Orville Etter, 94, left, speaks with Jimmy Marr after their gathering on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore., Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Pacifica, with its habit of providing a forum for Holocaust deniers, has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)

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A Customs and Border Patrol agent patrols the international border Tuesday, April 10, 2018 in Nogales, Ariz. The Republican governors of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico on Monday committed 1,600 Guard members to the border, giving President Donald Trump many of the troops he requested to fight what he's called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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New York state Sen. Kevin Parker told a Republican Senate staffer to kill herself in a now-deleted tweet Tuesday. (Twitter/@SenatorParker)

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Illustration on the homosexual lobby's attacks on straight black men by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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"The product of years of negotiating and listening to each other is a bill that will reduce crime, strengthen faith in our justice system, support law enforcement, and give thousands of people a better shot at living a good life," said Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican and chairman of the Judiciary Committee. (Associated Press)

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A federal judge's ruling that the Obama health care law is unconstitutional has landed like a stink bomb among Republicans. (Associated Press/File)

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"We should not let a temper tantrum — threats — push us in the direction of doing something even our Republican colleagues know is wrong," Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer told NBC. (Associated Press)

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Protestors face off against the police during an anti-migrant demonstration outside of EU headquarters in Brussels, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators around the European Union headquarters at the end of a march to protest the adoption of a U.N. migration pact. (AP Photo)

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This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith) ** FILE **

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This May 27, 2008, file photo, shows the gurney in the death chamber in Huntsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

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President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2016, file photo, a one-month dosage of hormonal birth control pills is displayed in Sacramento, Calif. California faces potentially "dire" public health and financial consequences from new rules by the Trump administration allowing more employers to opt out of providing women with no-cost birth control, a federal judge said Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, Calif., became the second federal judge in the country to block the changes to President Barack Obama's health care law, saying the Trump administration failed to provide the required notice and public comment period before implementing them. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to reporters during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, the commission's chairman, pushed the measure, saying that most deaths in school shootings happen within the first few minutes, before officers responded. (Associated Press)

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A migrant raises his fist as he nears the Mexican side of the the Suchiate River, that connects Guatemala and Mexico, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

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File - This June 21, 2017, file photo shows a women's area at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., during a media tour of the facility. The federal facility, operated under contract by The GEO Group, is used to house people detained on immigration and other violations. A federal judge says immigrant rights activists can continue to challenge what they describe as unlawful U.S. government delays for asylum cases. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle dismissed some arguments raised by the lawsuit in a ruling Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)