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Migrants line up as they wait to be evacuated from a makeshift street camp, in Paris, France Friday, July 7, 2017. Paris authorities are evacuating some 1,500 migrants from a makeshift street camp as Europe faces an upsurge in new arrivals. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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A migrant walks in a makeshift street camp to collect his matters before being evacuated, in Paris, Friday, July 7, 2017. Paris authorities are evacuating some 1,500 migrants from a makeshift street camp as Europe faces an upsurge in new arrivals. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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FILE- In this Friday Jan. 13, 2017 file photo, a migrant reacts on being rescued by the MV Aquarius, after 191 people and two corpses were recovered from international waters in the Mediterranean Sea about 22 miles north of Sabrata, Libya. Europeans have made a wrong, and dangerous, turn on the Mediterranean as they try to slow the ever-growing number of migrants crossing the sea by looking for help from Libya, a country in chaos that is the jumping-off point for the hazardous journey, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday, July 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Sima Diab, File)
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A firefighter puts out a fire during a protest against the upcoming G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, Friday July 7, 2017. The leader of the group of 20 meet Friday and Saturday in Hamburg. (Bodo Marks/dpa via AP)
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People look at a burnt-out car in Hamburg, Germany, early Friday, July 7, 2017, after protests against the G-20 summit. The leaders of the group of 20 meet Friday and Saturday in Hamburg. (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP)
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A window is smashed in Hamburg, northern Germany, Friday, July 7, 2017 after protests against the G-20 summit turnt violent the night before. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)
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Kelly McKinney, 29, of Glasgow, center, holds a megaphone as she chants with other protesters on the sidewalk of the Barren River Plaza shopping center in Glasgow, Ky., Thursday, July 6, 2017. Maureen Davis, 58, of Bowling Green, left, and Denise Zielinski, 66, of Bowling Green, right, chant along with McKinney. They said they were protesting against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who was speaking at a Glasgow Rotary Club meeting inside the T.J. Health Pavilion Community Center. (Will Perkins/The Daily Times via AP)
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Glasgow Police Department Chief Guy Howie, right, tells a group of protesters that they are not allowed to chant because they are on private property on a grassy area in the parking lot in front of the T.J. Health Pavilion Community Center in Glasgow, Ky., Thursday, July 6, 2017. They said they were protesting against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who was speaking at a Glasgow Rotary Club meeting inside the T.J. Health Pavilion Community Center. (Will Perkins/The Daily Times via AP)
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House Republicans, including Minority Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, center, listen to comments from House Speaker Michael Madigan after the House voted to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a budget package at the Capitol Thursday, July 6, 2017. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Junius Williams talks to a reporter about the the Newark riots of 1967 in Newark, N.J. Fifty years ago Williams was a law student at Yale University fighting gentrification in Newark when the riots broke out. As he was driving friends home on the second night of the riots, Williams faced down a police officer wielding a shotgun during a traffic stop. He was spared, he says, when a sergeant diffused the situation by searching Williams’ car for guns. He found only law books. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Junius Williams talks to a reporter about the Newark riots of 1967 in Newark, N.J. Fifty years ago Williams was a law student at Yale University fighting gentrification in Newark when the riots broke out. As he was driving friends home on the second night of the riots, Williams faced down a police officer wielding a shotgun during a traffic stop. He was spared, he says, when a sergeant diffused the situation by searching Williams’ car for guns. He found only law books. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Junius Williams talks to a reporter about the Newark riots of 1967 in Newark, N.J. Fifty years ago Williams was a law student at Yale University fighting gentrification in Newark when the riots broke out. As he was driving friends home on the second night of the riots, Williams faced down a police officer wielding a shotgun during a traffic stop. He was spared, he says, when a sergeant diffused the situation by searching Williams’ car for guns. He found only law books. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka talks to a reporter about the Newark riots fifty years ago, in Newark, N.J. “We are a long way from 1967, but we are even further away from where we need to be to prevent 1967 from happening again,” said Baraka whose father, poet and activist Amiri Baraka, was badly beaten during the riots. “There were a myriad of things that were suggested, and frankly they were ignored. People need to feel like the government and the police are there to protect them and not to prey on them.” (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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In this June 28, 2017 photo, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka talks to a reporter about the Newark riots fifty years ago, in Newark, N.J. “We are a long way from 1967, but we are even further away from where we need to be to prevent 1967 from happening again,” said Baraka whose father, poet and activist Amiri Baraka, was badly beaten during the riots. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Ali Said, of Somalia, center, is pushed by refugee caseworker Mohamed Yassin, behind, as he makes his way into an elevator with his two sons Thursday, July 6, 2017, in San Diego. Said, whose leg was blown off by a grenade, says he feels unbelievably lucky to be among the last refugees allowed into the United States before stricter rules kick in as part of the Trump administration's travel ban. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Ali Said, of Somalia, right, leaves a center for refugees with his two sons, as refugee caseworker Mohamed Yassin, left, waits by a van Thursday, July 6, 2017, in San Diego. Said, whose leg was blown off by a grenade, says he feels unbelievably lucky to be among the last refugees allowed into the United States before stricter rules kick in as part of the Trump administration's travel ban. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Ali Said, of Somalia, center, is pushed by refugee caseworker Mohamed Yassin, behind, as he makes his way into an elevator with his two sons Thursday, July 6, 2017, in San Diego. Said, whose leg was blown off by a grenade, says he feels unbelievably lucky to be among the last refugees allowed into the United States before stricter rules kick in as part of the Trump administration's travel ban. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Ali Said, of Somalia, left, waits at a center for refugees with his two sons Thursday, July 6, 2017, in San Diego. Said, whose leg was blown off by a grenade, says he feels unbelievably lucky to be among the last refugees allowed into the United States before stricter rules kick in as part of the Trump administration's travel ban. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Ali Said, of Somalia, waits in a hallway at a center for refugees with his two sons Thursday, July 6, 2017, in San Diego. Said, whose leg was blown off by a grenade, says he feels unbelievably lucky to be among the last refugees allowed into the United States before stricter rules kick in as part of the Trump administration's travel ban. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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Ali Said, of Somalia, waits at a center for refugees Thursday, July 6, 2017, in San Diego. Said, whose leg was blown off by a grenade, says he feels unbelievably lucky to be among the last refugees allowed into the United States before stricter rules kick in as part of the Trump administration's travel ban. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)