Social Issues

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An Italian paramedic helps a migrant during the disembark of 402 migrants from the Britain Royal Navy's ship Echo in the harbor of Brindisi, Italy, Friday June 30, 2017. (Max Frigione /ANSA via AP)

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Migrants stand on the deck of the Swedish Navy ship Bkv 002, as they wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Catania, Italy, Saturday, July 1, 2017. The Swedish ship carried 650 migrants rescued in various operations in the Mediterranean Sea and the dead bodies of seven men and two women, authorities said. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)

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In this June 27, 2017, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tells reporters he is delaying a vote on the Republican health care bill while GOP leadership works toward getting enough votes, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, listens to the final debate on Senate Bill 9 during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)

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Illinois State Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago, speaks during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)

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Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, right, talks with Illinois State Rep. Tim Butler, R-Springfield, left, on the floor during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)

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Illinois State Rep. David Harris, R-Arlington Heights, yells during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)

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Illinois Stater Rep. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, speaks during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)

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Illinois State Rep. Mike Unes, R-East Peoria, speaks during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)

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Illinois State Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago, walks through the empty floor of the Illinois House as they prepare to vote on an income tax increase bill during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved on Sunday an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)

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(Greater Williamsburg Chamber and Tourism Alliance)

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Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, holds up a copy of a lawsuit filed on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public elementary schools during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Oregon House Democrats pushed through the Reproductive Health Equity Act after a nearly two-hour debate over the bill, which would allocate $10.2 million for services related to contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy, including vasectomies and abortions, in the 2017-19 budget period. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

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FILE - In this June 26, 2017, file photo, Kadhim Al-bumohammed, kneeling right, a 64-year-old Iraqi refugee in the U.S., listens to speakers at an Albuquerque rally in his honor. As cities and towns host July 4th parades and fireworks shows, some minority residents are expressing mixed feelings about the holiday used to reaffirm the country's founding based on equality and civil liberties. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

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In this Sunday, June 11, 2017 photo, United Steel Workers local 1999 union president Chuck Jones, right, is hugged by Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., during his retirement party in the union hall in Indianapolis. Jones became a steel worker straight out of high school in 1969 during a high tide of the U.S. labor movement that helped propel a generation of blue-collar workers into the middle class. He said his retirement at the beginning of June was “bittersweet” after decades of declining fortunes for working people. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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In this June 11, 2017 photo, United Steel Workers local 1999 union president Chuck Jones takes a selfie with union member Mike Hensley of Gosport, Ind., during his retirement party in the union hall in Indianapolis. Jones became a steel worker straight out of high school in 1969 during a high tide of the U.S. labor movement that helped propel a generation of blue-collar workers into the middle class. He said his retirement at the beginning of June was “bittersweet” after decades of declining fortunes for working people. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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In this May 19, 2017, file photo, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm talks in his office about the benefits of placing prosecutors with police officers in neighborhoods to address crime and seek alternatives to prison. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno) ** FILE **

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People demonstrate against the GOP health care bill, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Philadelphia. Senate Republican leaders considered keeping one of former President Barack Obama's big tax increases on wealthier Americans and using the money to fatten proposed subsidies for the poor in a bid Thursday to placate moderate GOP lawmakers and salvage their struggling health care bill. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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In this Friday, June 30, 2017 photo Richard Perkins, right, and Robert Maurais stand outside their home in Ogunquit, Maine. Politicians have been chipping away at funding for heating aid to low-income Americans for a decade. Now President Donald Trump has proposed ending it altogether, eliciting an outcry from low-income residents who depend on the program to stay warm. Perkins called the proposed elimination of heating aid “cruel.” (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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In this Friday, June 30, 2017 photo Richard Perkins, right, and Robert Maurais stand outside their home in Ogunquit, Maine. Politicians have been chipping away at funding for heating aid to low-income Americans for a decade. Now President Donald Trump has proposed ending it altogether, eliciting an outcry from low-income residents who depend on the program to stay warm. Perkins called the proposed elimination of heating aid “cruel.” (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)