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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)
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Animal rights activist chant slogans in support of the ivory crush, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in New York's Central Park. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation destroyed illegal ivory confiscated through state enforcement efforts over the last two years. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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CNN's Ana Navarro took part in a heated immigration debate on "Anderson Cooper 360" on Wednesday that prompted her to tell panelist Jeffrey Lord, "It must be so nice to be a white male." (Image: CNN screenshot)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, to unveil "A Better Deal On Trade and Jobs," to put American workers first and fight back against companies that outsource jobs and countries that manipulate trade laws. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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FILE - This is a Tuesday, April 10, 2001, file of thousands of protesters as they demonstrate outside Dutch government buildings at The Hague, Netherlands, as the Upper House of Parliament voted to legalize euthanasia. Dying by euthanasia has become “common practice” in the Netherlands since its legalization a dozen years ago and doctors are now reporting increasing rates of people seeking the practice who aren’t terminally ill, a new review says. (AP Photo/Serge Ligtenberg, File)
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In this July 20, 2017 photo, midwife Ana Choque braids her hair after getting home from a prenatal care visit at a patient's home in El Alto, Bolivia. Choque, who began learning midwifery at age 15 from her grandmother, is one of 22 midwives who passed an exam to get qualified by the health ministry as part of a midwifery program within the public health system. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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In this June 20, 2017 photo, midwife Ana Choque massages the feet of Mariana Limachi two weeks after delivering Limachi's first child at her home in El Alto, Bolivia. Maternal deaths in Bolivia are concentrated among poor, rural indigenous women. Critics say Bolivia's public health centers and hospitals in rural areas often lack beds, doctors and medicines. "An equally important factor is the fact that indigenous women who have managed to get to clinics have often been treated as second-class citizens, scorned because of their gender, their ethnicity and their traditions," the U.N. body said in a 2009 report. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Pittsburgh Pirates' Gregory Polanco gets a sign during a fifth inning at-bat against Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Robert Stephenson in a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. Polanco drew a walk. It was Polanco's first game back off the disabled list. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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NSA Spying on the Entire Population of the U.S.A. Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Buzz Osborne of The Melvins. (Dave Kapp)
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In this October 2013 photo, Audemio Orozco-Ramirez speaks during an interview in Helena, Mont., about a sexual assault he says he experienced at the Jefferson County jail in Boulder, Mont. U.S. immigration authorities arrested Orozco-Ramirez on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, and plan to deport him to Mexico just months after he settled claims that he was raped in a Montana jail while previously awaiting deportation proceedings, the man's attorney said. (John S. Adams/The Great Falls Tribune via AP)
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Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, said the administration's tariffs are "like shooting ourselves in both feet" because they raise prices for consumers while reducing revenue, profits, wages and jobs. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017 file photo, American League's Cleveland Indians pitcher Andrew Miller throws a pitch, during the MLB baseball All-Star Game in Miami. The Cleveland Indians have placed All-Star reliever Andrew Miller on the disabled list with right knee tendinitis. Miller is one of baseball's best late-innings pitchers and he's one of the most important players for the defending AL champions. He has been uncharacteristically wild of late, walking 10 batters in the past 21 innings. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
