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In this March 23, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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FILE - In this May 1, 2006, file photo more than 300,000 demonstrators march to show support for immigrant rights in Chicago. Immigrant and union groups will march in cities across the United States on Monday, May 1, 2017, to mark May Day and protest against President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost deportations. The day has become a rallying point for immigrants in the U.S. since demonstrations were held in 2006 against a proposed immigration enforcement bill. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
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FILE- In this May 1, 2006, file photo, demonstrators march to show support for immigrant rights on the west steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Immigrant and union groups will march in cities across the United States on Monday, May 1, 2017, to mark May Day and protest against President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost deportations. The day has become a rallying point for immigrants in the U.S. since demonstrations were held in 2006 against a proposed immigration enforcement bill. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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In this May 1, 2006, file photo, demonstrators march to show support for immigrant rights along Wilshire Boulevard near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. Immigrant and union groups will march in cities across the United States on Monday, May 1, 2017, to mark May Day and protest against President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost deportations. The day has become a rallying point for immigrants in the U.S. since demonstrations were held in 2006 against a proposed immigration enforcement bill. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)
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In this Feb. 14, 2017 photo provided by the Center for Coastal Studies, a pair of right whales feed just below the surface of Cape Cod Bay off shore from Provincetown, Mass. Charles "Stormy" Mayo, director of right whale ecology at center in Provincetown, said ominous signs suggest the global population of 500 animals is slowly declining. (Center for Coastal Studies via AP)
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Illustration on Health care as a right by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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FILE - In this Sunday, May 1, 2016, file photo, a person reacts after being pepper sprayed during an anti-capitalism protest in Seattle. Tens of thousands of immigrants and their supporters are expected to rally Monday, May 1, 2017, against Trump administration policies. While immigration reform has been a key focus of May 1 demonstrations in the U.S. for over a decade, the roots of May Day, or International Workers Day, stretch back over a century. (Grant Hindsley/seattlepi.com via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 1, 2012, file photo, police officers and protesters scuffle, in New York. Tens of thousands of immigrants and their supporters are expected to rally Monday, May 1, 2017, against Trump administration policies. While immigration reform has been a key focus of May 1 demonstrations in the U.S. for over a decade, the roots of May Day, or International Workers Day, stretch back over a century. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, painters works on the side of a newly constructed slave cabin in the South yard Slave Community at James Madison's Montpelier, in Montpelier, Va. The slave quarters were cleared away more than 150 years ago and planted over with grass. The reconstruction began in 2015 after a gift from David Rubenstein, a Washington philanthropist and history buff. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)'
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, visitors look over reconstructed slave cabins in the South Yard slave community at James Madison's estate, in Montpelier, Va. The slave quarters were cleared away more than 150 years ago and planted over with grass. The reconstruction began in 2015 after a gift from David Rubenstein, a Washington philanthropist and history buff. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)'
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, builder Craig Jacobs who is reconstructing the slave community at James Madison's estate, walks into one of the reconstructed slave cabins in Montpelier, Va. The slave quarters were cleared away more than 150 years ago and planted over with grass. The reconstruction began in 2015 after a gift from David Rubenstein, a Washington philanthropist and history buff. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, a marker gives visitors a tutorial of the South Yard slave community that is being reconstructed at James Madison's estate, in Montpelier, Va. The slave quarters were cleared away more than 150 years ago and planted over with grass. The reconstruction began in 2015 after a gift from David Rubenstein, a Washington philanthropist and history buff. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, May 26, 2016, a sign welcomes residents and visitors to the tiny town in Dietrich, Idaho. Community leaders in Idaho are collecting stories of violence and discrimination in the wake of a sexual assault of a disabled black athlete by his white teammates that shocked not only a small town but residents across the state. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi, File)
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In this Wednesday, April 19, 2017, photo, Rep. Gary VanDeaver, R-New Boston, works at his desk in the House Chamber at the Texas State Capitol, in Austin, Texas. Texas has led the way on many of the country's top conservative issues, from guns and small government to imposing harsh limits on abortion and strict voter ID rules, but offering taxpayer funding to private schools is one issue Texas is actively opposing. “In my district, public school is the community,” said VanDeaver. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 19, 2017, photo, Rep. Gary VanDeaver, R-New Boston, works at his desk in the House Chamber at the Texas State Capitol, in Austin, Texas. Texas has led the way on many of the country's top conservative issues, from guns and small government to imposing harsh limits on abortion and strict voter ID rules, but offering taxpayer funding to private schools is one issue Texas is actively opposing. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FILE - In this April 15, 2017, file photo, demonstrators participate in a march and rally in New York to demand President Donald Trump release his tax returns. New York Democrats have hatched a plan in Albany to get a look at President Donald Trump's tax records by crafting a piece of specific legislation that does everything but mention him by name. The bill in New York's Legislature would require the state to release five years of state tax information for any president or vice president who files a New York state return. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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Barn worker Jose Cesada, an immigrant worker in the United States on an H-2B visa, rakes the cool down path at the barn of trainer Dale Romans on the backside at Churchill Downs, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. The horse racing industry, dependent on immigrant workers, is facing a shortage of manpower due to a shortage of visas being issued. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) ** FILE **
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Baldemar Bahena, assistant trainer to Dale Romans, checks on his horses being bathed at the backside of Churchill Downs, Tuesday, April. 18, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. Immigrants have become indispensable at Churchill Downs and other tracks. Now, fear is spreading that a Trump administration crackdown on immigration will be a calamity both for the tracks and for many of their workers. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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Assistant trainer Baldemar Bahena, left, and trainer Dale Romans look on as a groom bathes a horse at Churchill Downs, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. Immigrants have become indispensable at Churchill Downs and other tracks. Now, fear is spreading that a Trump administration crackdown on immigration will be a calamity both for the tracks and for many of their workers. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
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In this Thursday, April 13, 2017, photo, Baldemar Bahena, assistant trainer to Dale Romans, talks about the importance of immigrant workers to the horse racing industry in his backside office at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
