Social Issues

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Pro-choice activists and pro-life advocates have each held rallies outside the Supreme Court in Washington this year to support their causes. ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Attorney General Jefferson Sessions' four new Justice Department grant solicitations will give preference to jurisdictions that are more open to immigration cooperation. (Associated Press/File)

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Illustration on leniency on drug offences by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Illustration on the rise of vulgarity in the culture by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Illustration on the effects of uncontrolled immigration on the quality of life in America by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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"Mr. President, here's your chance," said Senate Minority Leader Sen. Charles E. Schumer (center.) "Join us. We'd like to do this on a bipartisan basis," said the New York Democrat, regarding immigration reform legislation currently being debated in Congress. (Associated Press)

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Critics complain about the U.S. immigration system. It is considered "lax," however, compared to the strict policies in other nations. (Associated Press)

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A barricade crosses railroad track at a protest camp on property outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Portland, Ore., Monday, June 25, 2018. Law enforcement officers began distributing notices to vacate to demonstrators late Monday morning. The round-the-clock demonstration outside the Portland headquarters began June 17, 2018, and increased in size early last week, prompting officials to close the facility. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

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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)