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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 6, 2018 file photo, Gabriela Hernandez, executive director of the nonprofit New Mexico Dream Team, holds up an image in Albuquerque, N.M, of a Honduran transgender woman who died while in U.S. custody last month. Several migrants told New Mexico lawmakers Monday, July 16, 2018, that they were denied medication and adequate treatment while detained inside two different federal immigration facilities in the state. Joselin Mendez, of Nicaragua, blamed the death of Roxsana Hernandez, a Honduran transgender woman who died in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on the lack of sufficient medical treatment. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz, File)

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Migrants run from tear gas launched by U.S. agents, at the Mexico-U.S. border, after some got past police in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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In the infamous press conference with President Trump earlier this month, Jim Acosta said the president was all wrong about the migrant caravan that was then marching toward the U.S.-Mexican border. (Associated Press photograph)

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FILE - In this June 30, 2015, file photo, signs are seen at the entrance to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. Lawyers for the mother of a toddler who died several weeks after being released from the nation's largest family detention center have filed a legal claim seeking $60 million from the U.S. government for the child's death. Attorneys for Yazmin Juarez submitted the claim Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican. (Associated Press photograph)

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Two Honduran men pose as a photographer, at left, takes their picture after the group climbed the border wall separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, before climbing back down on the Mexican side, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, seen from San Diego. Migrants traveling by caravan from Central America continue to arrive in Tijuana, where the border has been fortified by razor wire in many sections by U.S. authorities. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

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Illustration on abortion and women's rights by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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The Pledge of Allegiance is located at the front of the room where 106-year old Maria Valles Bonilla will recite the Oath of Allegiance for a naturalization ceremony at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Fairfax, Va. Bonilla is from El Salvador and it was her late husband's dream to become a U.S. citizen, so today she became a citizen for both of them. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Arizona Tax Relief Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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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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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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Seema Verma, administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the changes will save taxpayers $690 million over 10 years. (Associated Press)

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A migrant carries a child past Mexican police who stand guard outside the Benito Juarez Sports Center which is serving as a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Nov. 26, 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 thousands of Central American migrants who have arrived. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Migrants cross the river at the Mexico-U.S. border after pushing past a line of Mexican police at the Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018, as they try to reach the U.S. 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/Ramon Espinosa)

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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, listens to testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, focusing on allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, also appears. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/POOL) ** FILE **

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Migrants wave at U.S. border control helicopters flying near the Benito Juarez Sports Center serving as a temporary shelter for Central American migrants, in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 24, 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.

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File - In this Nov. 16, 2018 file photo, concertina wire lines the top of a wall at the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. The dividing line between the United States and Mexico at the edge of the Pacific Ocean is now more than just a towering metal wall that cuts through the sandy beach. Overnight, workers stacked up rows of coiled wire, hoping to discourage the Central American migrants gathering in Tijuana from crossing illegally. It marks one of numerous spots along the U.S.-Mexico border where soldiers and contractors have been installing different versions of sharp wire barriers. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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Illustration on 1968's lingering influence on current culture and policy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, dances to the music as she steps away from the podium past Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., far left, Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., after speaking about Democratic wins in the House of Representatives to a crowd of Democratic supporters during an election night returns event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)