Social Issues

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FILE - In this Saturday, April 28, 2012 file photo Zenit's fans march prior the match of their team in the national soccer Championship in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia. A new report seen by the Associated Press shows Russia has made progress fighting football racism ahead of the Confederations Cup and next year's World Cup, but warns that anti-Semitism in stadiums has grown and that racist fans are using far-right codes to smuggle offensive messages into stadiums. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

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In this May 17, 2017 photo, Cuban immigrant Hermes Vigoa, who arrived in the U.S. two years before Obama canceled the fast-track citizenship system, gives an interview outside his home in Miami, Florida. Vigoa, 46, was detained when he showed up at an immigration office in Miami earlier this year to renew a temporary document while he completed the permanent-residency process. Tens of thousands of Cubans living in the U.S. are adapting to a new reality: After enjoying decades of favored status dating back to the Cold War, many of them now face the same deportation risks as any other immigrants. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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FILE - In this May 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, after the House pushed through a health care bill. Trump promised to make health care more affordable but a government report finds that out-of-pocket costs _ deductibles and copayments _ would average 61 percent higher under the House Republican bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Pre rolled marijuana cigarettes are displayed at the Canna Care medical marijuana dispensary Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Tucked in the state budget agreement reached between Gov. Jerry Brown and top legislative Democrats, are standards to merge the state's new voter-approved recreational marijuana law with the long-standing medical marijuana program. Lawmakers are expected to vote on the budget plan, Thursday. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Joseph Hough, an employee at the Canna Care medical marijuana dispensary, displays a pre-packaged marijuana bud Wednesday, June 14, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Tucked in the state budget agreement reached between Gov. Jerry Brown and top legislative Democrats, are standards to merge the state's new voter-approved recreational marijuana law with the long-standing medical marijuana program. Lawmakers are expected to vote on the budget plan, Thursday. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Becca Keating, author and political activist.

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Becca Keating, author and political activist.

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Bill Cosby exits the courtroom during his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

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Bill Cosby enters the courtroom during his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

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Bill Cosby exits the courtroom during his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

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Bill Cosby walks through the Montgomery County Courthouse during jury deliberations in his sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

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Attorney Gloria Allred arrives for jury deliberations in Bill Cosy's sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

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District Attorney of Montgomery County Kevin Steele walks through the Montgomery County Courthouse during jury deliberations in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)

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Andrea Constand exits the courtroom during jury deliberations in Bill Cosby's his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Wednesday, June 14, 2017. Cosby is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting Constand at his home outside Philadelphia in 2004. (Mark Makela/Pool Photo via AP)