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Illustration on 3metoo and the culture by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Illustration on prison reform by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency
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Illustration on illegal immigration and the border wall by Nancy Ohanian/Tribune Content Agency
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BEST OF 2018 - Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen speaks during a roundtable on immigration policy with President Donald Trump at Morrelly Homeland Security Center, Wednesday, May 23, 2018, in Bethpage, N.Y. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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BEST OF 2018 - A migrant runs from tear gas launched by U.S. agents, amid members of the press covering the Mexico-U.S. border, after a group of migrants got past Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and says that he has asked the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants who have arrived in the city. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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BEST OF 2018 - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, promised a full debate on immigration in coming weeks. (Associated Press)
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"The Young Turks" host and liberal activist Cenk Uygur came to the defense of his political foe Tucker Carlson after the Fox News host became the target of an advertising boycott for comments he made about illegal immigration. (YouTube/@The Young Turks)
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The bill drew a stunning coalition, with even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signing on. (Associated Press)
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In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, photo, provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immigrants walk into a building at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Currently housing 1,520 mothers and their children, about 10 percent are families who were temporarily separated and then reunited under a “zero tolerance policy” that has since been reversed. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)
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"Let me be clear. The Republican offer today would not pass either chamber," said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on homelessness by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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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)