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FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, March 25, 2017, a man fishes in the river near to a cross in memory of a migrant who died trying to cross to the U.S., on the bank of the Rio Grande river in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, across the border from Laredo, Texas. The U.N.'s migration agency said Friday Aug. 4, 2017, the number of deaths among migrants trying to cross from Mexico to the United States has increased by 17-percent this year compared to a year ago, with 50 bodies found in July alone. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, FILE)
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, left, is back by New Mexico State Rep. Monica Youngblood as she speaks at a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Recent child killings, attacks on officers and a rise in crime has some conservative New Mexico lawmakers calling for the state to reinstate the death penalty. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo, a memorial is set up in a neighborhood where Nashville Officer Josh Lippert shot Jocques Scott Clemmons in Nashville, Tenn. Federal officials on Friday, Aug. 4, 2017, agreed with a state decision not to prosecute Lipper, a white Tennessee police officer, who fatally shot Clemmons, a black man, after a traffic stop. (AP Photo/Jonathan Mattise, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 file photo, anti-abortion demonstrators arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington during the March for Life, marking the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. The current Congress is almost monolithic when it comes to abortion. Only a small handful of Republicans vote to protect abortion rights; a similarly small number of Democrats support restrictions on abortion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this May 27, 2011, file photo, singer Taylor Swift performs her song "Story of Us", as she kicks off her Speak Now North American tour in Omaha, Neb. David Mueller, a former radio host, claims in a lawsuit that he lost his job because Swift falsely accused him of groping her. Swift has countersued, alleging she's the victim of sexual assault. Mueller is seeking up to $3 million in damages at the trial that begins Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in federal court in Denver. Both sides say no settlement is in the works. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2103 file photo, Taylor Swift appears at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn. David Mueller, a former radio host, claims in a lawsuit that he lost his job because Swift falsely accused him of groping her. Swift has countersued, alleging she's the victim of sexual assault. Mueller is seeking up to $3 million in damages at the trial that begins Monday, Aug. 7, 2017, in federal court in Denver. Both sides say no settlement is in the works. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
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In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017, photo, Walt Rowen poses for a photo at his decorative glass company, the Susquehanna Glass Co., in Columbia, Pa. With premiums on the federal health insurance exchange rising, Rowen began offering employer-provided group health insurance to his employees. If you are like roughly half of Americans who get their health insurance through an employer, relax. The turmoil around “Obamacare” all but guarantees you’ll still be able to do that. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)
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FILE - In this July 31, 2013 file photo, Pardeep Kaleka, left, and Arno Michaelis talk at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, Wis. Five years ago on Aug. 5, 2017, a white supremacist shot and killed six temple members, including Kaleka's father, Satwant Singh Kaleka. Michaelis founded a gang of skinheads and sang in a hate-metal band but had renounced the racist movement he was a part of before the shootings. In the years since the shootings those affected by the tragedy have remained united by a mission to push back against hatred. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
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Obama Constituents at State Department Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on economic lethargy by Mark Weber/Tribune Content Agency
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Libertarians have entered the health care fray, vowing to "repeal and deregulate" to create a system better than Trumpcare or Obamacare. (Libertarian Party)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2017 Dolores Jones gets a visit from Miracle, a golden retriever who surprised vets by overcoming a disability, on Wednesday, July 19, 2017, at St. Elizabeth Nursing Home in Janesville, Wis. (Angela Major/The Janesville Gazette via AP)
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This undated Nevada Department of Corrections photo shows death row inmate Scott Raymond Dozier, who was convicted in 2007 of robbing, killing and dismembering 22-year-old man in Las Vegas, and was convicted in Arizona in 2005 of another murder and dismemberment near Phoenix. Dozier has voluntarily quit appeals of his death sentence and wants to become the first person put to death in Nevada since 2006. Federal public defenders, state prosecutors and Dozier's lawyer are to meet Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, with a state court judge who has signed a warrant calling for Dozier's execution in October. (Nevada Department of Corrections via AP)
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People visit in a park overlooking Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **
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President Donald Trump's tweeter feed is photographed on a mobile phone in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. Trump’s tweets declaring transgender individuals unwelcome in his military has plunged the Pentagon into a legal and moral quagmire, seeing off a flurry of meetings to devise a new policy that could lead to hundreds of service members being discharged. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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FILE - In this July 26, 2017, file photo, protestors attend a rally in New York City, to protest President Donald Trump's announcement of a ban on transgender troops serving anywhere in the U.S. military. Trump’s tweets declaring transgender individuals unwelcome in his military has plunged the Pentagon into a legal and moral quagmire, seeing off a flurry of meetings to devise a new policy that could lead to hundreds of service members being discharged. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
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Yaritza Mendez, a citywide outreach coordinator for the non-profit Make the Road New York, stands for a photo at the organization's office, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in New York. With changes in proposed legislation that would shift the country from a family-based immigration system to one that gives preference to skilled workers over family connections, Mendez, who is also attempting to petition for her mother to live in the U.S., and organizations like Make the Road, are staying busy advising clients seeking help in navigating the system. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Yaritza Mendez, a citywide outreach coordinator for the non-profit Make the Road New York, stands for a photo at the organization's office, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in New York. With changes in proposed legislation that would shift the country from a family-based immigration system to one that gives preference to skilled workers over family connections, Mendez, who is also attempting to petition for her mother to live in the U.S., and organizations like Make the Road, are staying busy advising clients seeking help in navigating the system. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 1956 file photo, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Roerich from Bavaria, Germany, look out from the stern of the USNS General Langfitt anchored in New York Harbor carrying over a 1,000 refugees from Europe. In the background is the Statue of Liberty. The couple planned to settle in Ohio. The American self-image is forever intertwined with the melting pot, a nation that embraces the world's wretched refuse, a nation built by immigrants. A poem added to the base of the Statue of Liberty that welcomes immigrants has been dismissed by an adviser to President Donald Trump. Stephen Miller told reporters on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, that the sonnet written by Emma Lazarus about the "huddled masses" is not part of the original Statue of Liberty and suggested the statue had little to do with immigrants. (AP Photo/File)
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In this undated photo of a group of immigrants, who arrived at Ellis Island in New York, wait in line to begin immigration proceedings. Senior White House aide Stephen Miller told reporters Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, that the poem written by Emma Lazarus about the "huddled masses" is not part of the original Statue of Liberty. Miller says the Statue of Liberty is a "symbol of American liberty lighting the world" and suggested the statue had little to do with immigrants. The National Park Services says Lazarus' sonnet depicts the statue as a symbol of immigration and opportunity. (AP Photo/File)
