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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)

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An 11-year-old in Delaware who shares the same last name as President Trump has been the target of relentless bullying at school, his parents told local media this week. (WPVI)

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Vice President Mike Pence, center, listens as President Donald Trump argues with House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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A Gallup global poll estimates that some 158 million people now want to immigrate to the U.S. And 1-out-of-6 Americans would emigrate. (Associated Press)

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Immigrant rights activists are arrested by border patrol agents during a protest at the border wall in San Diego, Calif., Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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As a Uighur child played alone, China's Communist Party was showcasing Hotan Unity New Village, part of its efforts to tame Xinjiang province, the heartland of the country's often restive Uighur Muslim minority. (Associated Press/File)

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before serving a employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Los Angeles. Agents said they targeted about 100 7-Eleven stores nationwide Wednesday to open employment audits and interview workers. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Climate activists stop in front of the COP24 UN Climate Change Conference venue during the March for Climate in a protest against global warming in Katowice, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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This March 19, 2018, file photo shows the Yelp app on an iPad in Baltimore. Yelp is adding a new "Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert" to its app which will inform users of news articles about businesses which have been accused of racist behavior towards employees or patrons. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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Google employees walk off the job in a protest against what they said is the tech company's mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations against executives on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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This undated photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows death row inmate David Earl Miller in Nashville, Tenn. Miller, 61, has been moved to the state’s death watch ahead of his scheduled execution Thursday, Dec. 2018. Miller, who has been on death row for 36 years, was sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of 23-year-old Lee Standifer in Knoxville. (Tennessee Department of Correction via AP)

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Benefits of Home Ownership Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Migrants are escorted by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as they are detained after climbing over the border wall from Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, to San Ysidro, Calif., Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Thousands of Central American migrants who traveled with recent caravans want to seek asylum in the U.S. but face a decision between crossing illegally or waiting months, because the U.S. government only processes a limited number of those cases a day at the San Ysidro border crossing. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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16. Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne Batman (1989) Word count: 793, $12,243 per word

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12. Keanu Reeves as Neo The Matrix (1999) Word count: 995, $14,451 per word

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In a photo taken from the Tijuana, Mexico, side of the border, two immigrants on U.S. soil try to jump the second wall before border police arrived and arrested them, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. Thousands of migrants who traveled via caravan are seeking asylum in the U.S., but face a decision between waiting months or crossing illegally, because the U.S. government only processes a limited number of cases a day at the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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French Riots Over Gas Tax Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows foreign nationals being arrested this week 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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Saint Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, is making headlines again ahead of Christmas, this time by placing its nativity scene's baby Jesus in a cage to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies. (CBS)

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Illustration on the non-interference law for prescription drug pricing by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times