Social Issues

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This photo provided by the New Mexico State Land Office shows New Mexico Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn installing a sign along the U.S.-Mexico border to indicate the land belongs to the state Tuesday, March 6, 2018, near Santa Teresa, N.M. New Mexico's top land manager posted signs along the U.S.-Mexico border aimed at blocking border patrol operations on a one-mile stretch of state trust land over concerns that the federal government is not compensating the state for using the land. (Kris McNeil/New Mexico State Land Office via AP)

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FILE - In this April 14, 2017, file photo, protesters hold up signs outside a courthouse where a federal judge was to hear arguments in the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities in San Francisco. California state lawmakers passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed nearly 900 new laws in 2017, most of which take effect Jan. 1, 2018. Among them is one making California a sanctuary state in response to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

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Nikolas Cruz, accused of murdering 17 people in the Florida high school shooting, appears in court for a status hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cruz reportedly had a history of shooting small animals. While some animal welfare advocates question the usefulness of animal abuser registries, laws creating them have been passed in a growing number of municipalities in recent years with proponents citing studies linking animal cruelty to crimes ranging from domestic violence to mass shootings. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

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At the polling place in the Lone Star State: voters leave the town courthouse after casting their ballot in Blanco, Texas. (Associated Press)

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President Trump has a new and comprehensive voter survey that's being circulated by his 2020 reelection campaign. It has 32 questions. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on tolerance for sexual perversion by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Police guard the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco after protests this week, with people writing slogans such as "Keep Families Together." (Associated Press)

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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf stood by her warnings to illegal immigrants of an impending enforcement sweep. "I do not regret sharing this information," Ms. Schaaf said. "It is Oakland's legal right to be a sanctuary city and we have not broken any laws. We believe our community is safer when families stay together." (Associated Press)

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., explains to reporters how his negotiations with President Donald Trump broke down yesterday as quarreling politicians in Washington eventually failed to keep their government in business, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)