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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks with reporters in advance of votes on two broad immigration bills, deriding the Republican immigration legislation as a "compromise with the devil," at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Danny Bible. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused an appeal from Bible on death row for the 1979 slaying of a woman who went to his house in Houston to use a telephone and was found later stabbed 11 times with an ice pick, raped and dumped on the bank of a bayou. The high court, without comment Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, rejected the appeal of 65-year-old Bible. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez of Illinois and other Democrats insist the migrants arriving at the U.S. border should be considered refugees from horrific conditions. "They are not coming here illegally," Mr. Gutierrez told ABC's "This Week" program. "They are coming here seeking asylum and protection." (Associated Press/File)
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House Budget Committee member Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif. questions Budget Director Mick Mulvaney on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, during the committee's hearing on President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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First lady Melania Trump speaks at a roundtable at Upbring New Hope Children Center run by the Lutheran Social Services of the South in McAllen, Texas, Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., center, chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, flanked by Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, talk before a series of votes in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 21, 2018. Yesterday, Rep. Meadows and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., faced off in the chamber as lawmakers struggled to move on immigration amid the political fallout of migrant families being separated at the border. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stands outside a holding facility for children of illegal immigrants in Tornillo, Texas, June 21, 2018. (Image: Twitter, ABC-7 New York, video screenshot)
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Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims, an openly gay Democrat, had a vulgar message for Vice President Mike Pence.
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Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims, an openly gay Democrat, drew backlash in 2018 after he "welcomed" Vice President Mike Pence to Philadelphia with a picture of himself flipping the bird. (Facebook/@Brian Sims)
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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said social science has shown consistently that children fare best when they are raised by a mother and father who stay together throughout the child's upbringing. (Associated Press)
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Last Hope Before Election Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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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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A coalition of more than 40 progressive groups have organized a rally outside the White House and 100 marches around the country later this month to protest Trump administration immigration policies. (Moveon.org)
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"There's no need for legislation," said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. "Mr. President, you started it, you can stop it, plain and simple." (Associated Press)
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, walks with President Donald Trump as they head to a meeting of House Republicans to discuss a GOP immigration bill at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Illustration on mortgages and the new tax law by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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The New Yorker has apologized after a fact checker and contributing writer falsely accused a Marine veteran and current ICE forensic analyst of having a Nazi tattoo. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
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Central American migrants carry a flags of El Salvador and Honduras during a celebration of National Migrant Day at the Suchiate River on the border of Guatemala and Mexico on Sunday Sep. 3, 2006. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
