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Stonewall Jackson. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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President Trump, for his part, said he won't accept the border being overrun. "The United States will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility. It won't be," he said. (Associated Press)
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The news media has created a strong narrative about the immigration crisis, though some analysts are pointing to flaws in the coverage. (Associated Press)
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A newly retired Muslim professor at the University of Connecticut was caught on camera last year ordering students to remove their shoes and praise Allah before entering his office. (YouTube/@JihadWatchVideo)
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Illustration on world population growth by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist, from San Francisco, holds up his California Driver's License as he speaks to supporters of fair immigration reform gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, April 18, 2016. The Supreme Court is taking up an important dispute over immigration that could affect millions of people who are living in the country illegally. The Obama administration is asking the justices in arguments today to allow it to put in place two programs that could shield roughly 4 million people from deportation and make them eligible to work in the United States. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Migrants descend the Italian coast guard vessel Dattilo upon arrival at the eastern port of Valencia, Spain, Sunday, Jun. 17, 2018. The first Italian government ship accompanying the migrant aid vessel Aquarius with 630 people aboard on Sunday docked at the Spanish port ending a weeklong perilous crossing of the Mediterranean. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz)
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Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says Democrats in his chamber believe all Americans deserve a health care system that guarantees coverage for all. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2018, file photo U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before serving a employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Los Angeles. Immigration officials have sharply increased audits of companies to verify that their employees are authorized to work in the country, signaling the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration is reaching deeper into the workplace to create a "culture of compliance" among employers who rely on immigrant labor. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)
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Some Connecticut parents are crying foul after two transgender high school athletes took home state titles in girls track and field earlier this month. (WTNH)
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What do you mean,"you're not going to pay our bill?" (Illustration by Gary Varvel for Creators Syndicate)
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"Anyone who is hoping to use this report to undermine the Mueller probe or prove the existence of a deep state conspiracy against President Trump will be surely disappointed," Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer told reporters. (Associated Press)
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In this Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested 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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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelsoi speaks to reporters during a weekly press briefing, June 14, 2018. (Image: C-SPAN screenshot)
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Suicidal Thought Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks to supporters at the opening of her campaign field office Friday, May 18, 2018, in Ferguson, Mo. Less than six months before Election Day, McCaskills standing with Missouris African-American community is in question. And shes being forced to prove that shes not taking anyone for granted. McCaskill, a Democrat facing re-election in a state that has trended sharply Republican in recent years, knows she cannot afford to lose any support this fall _ especially not from a group of voters that was supposed to be among her most loyal. (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)
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Jared Fogle, the disgraced former Subway spokesperson was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison for child pornography charges, as well as charges he crossed state lines to pay for sex with minors. In this Nov. 19, 2015, file photo, former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle arrives at the federal courthouse in Indianapolis. An Indiana judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's ex-wife, which alleged that the fast-food chain continued promoting Fogle as its spokesman even though it knew of his sexual interest in children. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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"We don't have a deal at this point," said Rep. Mark Walker, North Carolina Republican (right). "We're at the midnight hour," he said as he emerged from negotiations in House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's office. Mr. Walker is one of the conservative leaders on the immigration issue. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, left, and Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., as House Republicans try to bridge their party's internal struggle over immigration at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2018. Rep. Walker says a large group of conservatives he leads has discussed providing a pathway to citizenship to "Dreamers" in exchange for funding for the proposed border wall, ending the visa lottery and limiting the relatives immigrants can bring into the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (Associated Press)
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File - In this Sunday, April 2, 2017 file photo, rancher Jim Chilton poses for a photo on his ranch in Arivaca, about 80 miles southwest of Tucson, Ariz. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was wounded in a shooting on a southern Arizona ranch near the U.S.-Mexico border before dawn Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in a remote area known for drug and migrant smuggling, the agency and the cattleman who owns the property said. Chilton, a fifth-generation Arizona cattleman who runs a 50,000-acre (about 20,230-hectare) ranch outside Arivaca, told The Associated Press in an interview that the Border Patrol sent him an email saying the agent was alone when he was wounded on the ranch and was struck in the leg and the hand. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
