Social Issues

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**FILE** Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain (right) and Jeff Flake listen to a question from the audience as they attend an "immigration conversation" on Aug. 27, 2013, in Mesa, Ariz. The two are members of the "Gang of Eight" who pushed a comprehensive immigration reform bill through the Senate earlier this year. (Associated Press)

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Rescue workers try to evacuate the injured after a cargo train known as "the Beast" derailed near Huimanguillo, Mexico, on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. The train, carrying at least 250 Central American hitchhiking migrants, derailed in a remote region, killing at least five people and injuring dozens, authorities said. (AP Photo/Tabasco State Government Press Office)

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**FILE** Illegal immigrants file into a U.S. Border Patrol facility in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian members from Youth Salafists group chant slogans while waving their black flags during a protest against the Egyptian and Syria regimes in Rafah Refugee Camp, southern Gaza Strip, on Aug. 22, 2013. Arabic on poster reads "Criminals and murderers." Syrian government forces pressed their offensive in eastern Damascus on Thursday, bombing rebel-held suburbs where the opposition said the regime had killed more than 100 people the day before in a chemical weapons attack. The government has denied allegations it used chemical weapons in artillery barrages on the area known as eastern Ghouta, calling the charges "absolutely baseless." (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Wendy Irving (center), a legal resident from Jamaica living in the Bronx borough of New York, shouts slogans during a rally against immigration reform held in front of New York's City Hall on April 10, 2006. (Associated Press)

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In a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, 35 percent of those surveyed viewed Gov. Bob McDonnell unfavorably. (associated press)

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**FILE** Voters wait in line on Nov. 6, 2012, at a polling place located inside a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, on Election Day. Attorney General Eric Holder says Texas is the first place that he will intervene to defend against what he calls attacks on the voting rights of minorities, but it is also the only state where the federal government has a clear opportunity to get involved, experts say. (Associated Press)

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Victor Villalpando-Saenz and Nico Villalpando-Saenz celebrate after being married at the Dona Ana County clerk's office in Las Cruces, N.M., on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. More than 40 same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses after the county clerk announced the county would be the first in New Mexico to marry gay couples. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca)