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Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens to reporter's question before a meeting of the Attorney General's Organized Crime Council and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Executive Committee to discuss implementation of the President's Executive Order 13773, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Arkansas governor spokesman J.R. Davis speaks after the news that the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the scheduled Monday, April 17, 2017, execution of Don Davis, scuttling efforts to resume capital punishment after nearly 12 years, in Varner, Ark. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)
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This Thursday, April 13, 2017 photo depicts a fourteen-year-old London Pleasants, left, who left slavery by joining a Loyalist regiment encouraging other slaves to flee to the British Army in search freedom, at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Dressed as the "Real Chicken Don" Shawn Frye joins others in calling for President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Tax March Sacramento activists are planning to join others in a protest on Tax Day, April 15 calling on the the president to release his tax returns. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Illustration on difficulties with tax cuts by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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FILE - This undated file photo from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement shows convicted sex offender Clarence Dean, who was sentenced in New York on Monday, April 17, 2017, to 25 years to life in prison for strangling a woman to death in a Times Square budget hotel. Dean was sentenced nearly a decade after killing Kristine Yitref, a onetime design student who had become a drug-addicted prostitute. (Florida Department of Law Enforcement via AP, File)
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After marrying Allan Cox, 48, left, and Steve Thomas, 61, right, Judge Wendell Griffen, center, signs their marriage license in this Monday, May 12, 2014 photo in Little Rock, Ark. Lawyers for gay couples asked the state's highest court Tuesday, May 13, 2014 to let same-sex weddings continue amid a fight over Arkansas' gay marriage ban, while more than half the counties that had granted licenses to same-sex couples changed course. (AP Photo/Christina Huynh)
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In a Monday, March 27, 2017, file photo, Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Ossoff greets supporters outside of the East Roswell Branch Library in Roswell, Ga., on the first day of early voting. President Donald Trump is attacking the leading Democratic candidate for a special election in a typically conservative Georgia congressional district, with Republicans bidding to avoid a major upset. On Twitter, Trump said Monday April 17, 2017, that "The super Liberal Democrat in the Georgia Congressional race tomorrow wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes!" (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump holds up Green Bay Packers jersey given to him by House Speaker Paul Ryan at a rally in West Allis, Wis. President Donald Trump heads to Ryan's congressional district in Wisconsin on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, facing low approval ratings and in the wake of his failure to fulfill a campaign promise to repeal and replace the federal health care law. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-A woman carries goods on her back after shopping at one of the many stores downtown owned by African refugees who have settled in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Maine offers a welfare program called General Assistance, which provides impoverished people with vouchers for rent, utilities and food. The amount refugees has bounced up and down over the years, but it accounts for less than 1 percent of the budget, said deputy city administrator Phil Nadeau. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Victoria Schalk, 22, left, and Melinda Blais, 27, right, share a traditional Somali meal with college classmate Nasteho Issa, 21, at restaurant and market opened by one of the first Somali families who settled in 2001 in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. The population had plummeted in 2001 as the paper mills closed. Downtown storefronts sat boarded up, ringed by sagging apartment buildings no longer needed to house workers since so few remained. The refugees saw possibility in Lewiston's decay. Word spread quickly and friends and families followed, by the hundreds. The town morphed in a matter of months into a laboratory for what happens when demographics and culture suddenly shift. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-U.S. flags hang outside a downtown building whose storefronts are made up of businesses started by African immigrants who have settled in Lewiston, Maine, Friday, March 17, 2017. Maine's immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa made $136.6 million in income in 2014, and paid $40 million in taxes, according to a report from the New American Economy, a bi-partisan coalition pushing for immigration reform. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Abdiaziz Shaleh, 19, a Lewiston high school senior and co-captain of the soccer team walks through a snow storm while leaving a friend's house in Lewiston, Maine, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. Shaleh, whose family is from Somalia, waited with them for several years in a refugee camp in Kenya before coming to the United States and eventually settling in Lewiston. Shaleh said President Donald Trump's election has created fear in the refugee community, including among the many students who come from immigrant families. Shaleh also worries about the many refugees who are suffering in Somalia and other parts of Africa, where famine remains a huge issue. "We got that chance (to come to America)," he said. "I just wanted them to have the same chance." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Lewiston high school seniors and co-captains of the soccer team, Joseph Kalilwa, 18, right, and Abdiaziz Shaleh, 19, play in Kaliwa's room at his home in Lewiston, Maine, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. "I mean that kind of bothers me sometimes like when people you go everywhere they just see you as a refugee," said Kalilwa who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is now an American citizen. "I'm like oh well, yeah, I am a refugee but then at the same time I see myself as an American." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Women wearing traditional muslim head coverings walk past one of the many stores downtown owned by African refugees who have settled in Lewiston, Maine, Friday, March 17, 2017. The refugees saw possibility in Lewiston's decay. Word spread quickly and friends and families followed, by the hundreds. The town morphed in a matter of months into a laboratory for what happens when demographics and culture suddenly shift. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Abdiaziz Shaleh, right, a Lewiston high school senior and co-captain of the soccer team, and Essa Gedi, center, both whose families emigrated from Somalia, sit with classmate Isiah Leach, left, during lunch in the school's cafeteria in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Two years ago, immigrant children led the high school soccer team to win the state championship, a moment heralded as a triumph for the city's embrace of its immigrant community. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-A woman wearing a khimar leaves after shopping at one of the many stores owned by Somali immigrants who have settled in Lewiston, Maine, Friday, March 17, 2017. In August 2016, candidate Donald Trump stood on a stage in Portland and singled out the Somali community as criminal. The police chief quickly refuted the charge as false, since crime has decreased in Lewiston after the refugees arrived, but it continues to linger in the minds of many. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this photo taken on Friday, April. 14, 2017, activists of a Pakistani civil society protest against the killing of a student Mohammad Mashal in Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistani police say they have arrested 22 suspects in the lynching of the university student who was accused of blasphemy. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
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In this April 7, 2017, migrants have breakfast onboard of the Golfo Azurro vessel a day after being rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO, Friday, April 7, 2017. With the Greek smuggling route largely closed off, the path of least resistance drifted to Libya _ a sprawling lawless country with a huge coast and competing rebel and government factions. Migrants have flooded into Libya from across Africa, producing a bonanza for smugglers. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
