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FILE - This file booking photo released by the San Francisco Police Department shows Orlando Vilchez Lazo. Federal immigration authorities say Lazo, a suspected serial rapist charged with posing as a Northern California ride-hailing driver to prey on his victims was living in the United States illegally. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said Tuesday, July 17, 2018, it plans to deport Orlando Vilchez Lazo to his native Peru if he is released from custody. (San Francisco Police Department via AP, File)
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"It's so counterintuitive to think that paying out of pocket is going to be cheaper than using your insurance," Sen. Susan Collins said. "Using your debit card is going to be cheaper than using your insurance card?" (Associated Press)
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Immigration Reform Gridlock Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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"When you just looked at the press conference, President Putin was the real victor," said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, of New York on Monday. (Associated Press photographs)
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A CBS News crew is confronted by a smuggler for illegal immigrants along the U.S. Southern border with Mexico, July 2018. (Image: CBS News screenshot)
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FILE - In this June 27, 2018 file photo, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., asks a question of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Tuesday, July 3, 2018, The Associated Press has found that stories circulating on the internet that Waters appeared on CNN calling for the next Supreme Court pick to be an illegal immigrant are untrue. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Barracks for law enforcement trainees in New Mexico, has been converted into a 672-bed detention center for illegal immigrant families. (Associated Press/File)
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Protesters display a sign that reads "Abolish ICE" during a rally in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, July 2, 2018. Protesters who were blocking the entrance to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in downtown Los Angeles have been led away in handcuffs. A group of 17 protesters sat down in the street, blocking the entrance to the facility Monday morning. The protesters, including faith and community leaders, locked arms and chanted, "Shut down ICE!" (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer criticized the guidelines. He said President Trump and Republicans "will have blood on their hands." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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In this July 10, 2018, file photo, Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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The push is on by centrist Democrats who are convinced they can woo the huge population of moderate and undecided voters to their side. (Associated Press)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 21, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. (AP Photo, File)
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An estimated 100,000 illegitimate voters are on Pennsylvania's rolls because of motor vehicle registration system problems and an inability to weed out fraud, the Public Interest Legal Foundation has found. (Associated Press)
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L. Francis Cissna, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, poses in his office in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Don Rosenberg, father of Drew Rosenberg who was killed by an illegal immigrant is arrested after disrupting a Senate Judiciary hearing to examine the Administration's immigration enforcement policies, in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
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Gustavo Envela Jr. is a political activist who plans to run for president in his home nation of Equitorial Guinea. (Video screenshot via YouTube / PresidentEnvela)
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Illustration on union pensions by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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A white woman was fired from her job managing an apartment complex in Memphis after a black woman recorded her calling the police on her boyfriend for wearing socks in the pool. (WREG)