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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 photo, Ivan Ramirez looks on as his mother, Hilda, an immigrant living illegally in the U.S, talks to a reporter at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Austin, Texas. Hilda and Ivan have taken refuge at the church for more than a year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 photo, Hilda Ramirez, an immigrant living illegally in the U.S, uses the kitchen at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Austin, Texas. Ramirez, from Guatemala, and her son have taken refuge at the church for more than a year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 photo, Hilda Ramirez, an immigrant living illegally in the U.S, and her son Ivan talk to a reporter in the at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Austin, Texas. Hilda and Ian, from Guatemala, have taken refuge at the church for more than a year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 photo, Hilda Ramirez, an immigrant living illegally in the U.S, reaches out to her son Ivan as she sits for an interview in the sanctuary at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Austin, Texas. Ramirez, from Guatemala, and Ivan have taken refuge at the church for more than a year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 photo, Hilda Ramirez, an immigrant living illegally in the U.S, walks through the halls at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Austin, Texas. Ramirez, from Guatemala, and her son have taken refuge at the church for more than a year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 photo, Ivan Ramirez, an immigrant from Guatemala plays outside St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, in Austin, Texas, where he and his mother, Hilda, have taken refuge for more than a year. There is growing fear in the city’s immigrant community as President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and executive orders go into effect. And as more than 50 Austin area residents were detained in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation raids last month, a growing number of churches in the Austin Sanctuary Network are volunteering to offer physical sanctuary or support to the churches that do. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 photo, Hilda Ramirez, an immigrant living illegally in the U.S, sits in the sanctuary at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church as she waits to talk to a reporter, Wednesday, in Austin, Texas. Ramirez, from Guatemala, and her son have taken refuge at the church for more than a year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FILE - In this this June 20, 2014, file photo, the Rikers Island jail complex stands in the foreground with the New York skyline in the background. Inmate activists, for more than a year, have argued that shutting down the sprawling, 10-jail complex in the East River is the only solution for a cycle of abuses that include violence by guards and gang members, mistreatment of the mentally ill and juveniles, and unjustly long detention for minor offenders. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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FILE - In this July 31, 2014 file photo, juvenile detention inmates at New York's Rikers Island jail walk in a single file to the chapel. Some activists say shutting down Rikers is the only solution for a cycle of abuses that includes violence by guards and gang members, mistreatment of the mentally ill and juveniles, and unjustly long detention for minor offenders. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
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People hold up a banner during a 'Unity Vigil' against racism and Islamophobia in reaction to Wednesday's attack, backdropped by the gates of Downing Street in London, Friday March 24, 2017. On Thursday authorities identified a 52-year-old Briton as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament in London, saying he had a long criminal record and once was investigated for extremism — but was not currently on a terrorism watch list. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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FILE - In this May 12, 2015, file photo, Singapore teen blogger Amos Yee speaks to a reporter while leaving the Subordinate Courts after being released on bail, in Singapore. Yee whose online posts blasting his government landed in him jail was granted asylum to remain in the United States, an immigration judge in Chicago ruled Friday, March 24, 2017. Yee has been detained by federal immigration authorities since December when he was taken into custody at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Attorneys said the 18-year-old could be released from a Wisconsin detention center as early as Monday. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
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President Donald Trump meets with members of the media regarding the health care overhaul bill, Friday, March 24, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Former Oklahoma State Sen. Ralph Shortey, right, makes his first court appearance with his lawyer Ed Blau at the Cleveland County Courthouse on Friday, March 24, 2017, in Norman, Okla. Shortey is charged with child prostitution involving a 17-year-old boy. (Steve Sisney/The Oklahoman via AP)
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Former Oklahoma State Sen. Ralph Shortey, second from left, makes his first court appearance with his lawyer Ed Blau at the Cleveland County Courthouse on Friday, March 24, 2017, in Norman, Okla. Shortey is charged with child prostitution involving a 17-year-old boy. (Steve Sisney/The Oklahoman via AP)
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FILE - This March 18, 2010, file photo shows the YouTube website in Los Angeles. An advertising boycott of YouTube is broadening in a sign of the skepticism surrounding Google’s promise to prevent marketing campaigns from appearing alongside repugnant videos. PepsiCo, Wal-Mart Stores and Dish Network became the latest companies to suspend their advertising on YouTube after The Wall Street Journal found Google’s automated programs placed their brands on five videos containing racist content. Even though the defections are continuing, most analysts aren’t worried yet. Starbucks and General Motors also joined in the YouTube boycott Friday, March 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
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Janella Williams receives treatment at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kan., Friday, March 24, 2017. The 45-year-old graphic designer receives medication from an intravenous drip for a neurological disorder, getting the drugs that she says allow her to walk. Under her Affordable Care Act plan, she pays $480 a month for coverage and has an out-of-pocket maximum of $3,500 a year. If she were to lose it, she wouldn’t be able to afford the $13,000-a-year out-of-pocket maximum under her husband’s insurance. Her treatments cost about $90,000 every seven weeks. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Janella Williams watches television for news on the health care vote while receiving treatment at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kan., Friday, March 24, 2017. The 45-year-old graphic designer receives medication from an intravenous drip for a neurological disorder, getting the drugs that she says allow her to walk. Under her Affordable Care Act plan, she pays $480 a month for coverage and has an out-of-pocket maximum of $3,500 a year. If she were to lose it, she wouldn’t be able to afford the $13,000-a-year out-of-pocket maximum under her husband’s insurance. Her treatments cost about $90,000 every seven weeks. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) ** FILE **
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Brandt Snedeker, right, hits on the third hole during round-robin play at the Dell Technologies Match Play golf tournament at Austin County Club, Friday, March 24, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., react at a joke from Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., center, as he jokes while speaking at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2017. Republican leaders have abruptly pulled their troubled health care overhaul bill off the House floor, short of votes and eager to avoid a humiliating defeat for President Donald Trump and GOP leaders.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Donald Trump about the health care overhaul bill, Friday, March 24, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. rump says he would be willing to reopen negotiations for a health care bill with Democrats if the Affordable Care Act fails.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
