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In this March 11, 2017, photo, Christian Burmese refugees sit in a classroom in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. An Associated Press analysis suggests that the people hurt most by President Donald Trump's planned deep cuts in refugee visas are from not any of the six Muslim countries listed in his travel ban, but Myanmar. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
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In this March 11, 2017, photo, Christian Burmese refugees study during an English lesson in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. An Associated Press analysis suggests that the people hurt most by President Donald Trump's planned deep cuts in refugee visas are from not any of the six Muslim countries listed in his travel ban, but Myanmar. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
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In this March 11, 2017 photo, Tin, a Christian Burmese refugee, leaves a school after dropping off her children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tin is a Christian Burmese who fled Myanmar and is hoping to resettle in the United States. An Associated Press analysis suggests that the people hurt most by President Donald Trump's planned deep cuts in refugee visas are from not any of the six Muslim countries listed in his travel ban, but Myanmar. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)
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President Trump proposes to cut cherished Obama programs such as support for alternative energy and slashes the EPA budget by 31 percent. (Associated Press)
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Trump Budget Ax Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on campus culture by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE--In this Jan. 26, 2017, file photo, Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, speaks in Salem, Ore. Preparing for federal abortion restrictions and health-care cuts, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban interference in terminating a pregnancy, and would ensure that health-care services related to reproductive health are fully covered by insurance. Kotek says the measure makes sure all reproductive health care is affordable and accessible. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)
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Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego in June 2016. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, has said it will fight against President Trump's immigration plans. The group has accused him of fostering an “enormous human rights crisis."
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Bekah Wolf, right, of the National Lawyers Guild, acts as a federal immigration agent during a role playing exercise for activists in Albuquerque, N.M. on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. New Mexico activists are joining advocacy groups across the country in providing training to people seeking to help immigrants avoid deportation. The SouthWest Organizing Project hosted a training session Wednesday on accompanying immigrants to court and supporting them when immigration authorities arrive. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Bekah Wolf, center, of the National Lawyers Guild, acts as a federal immigration agent during a role playing exercise for activists in Albuquerque, N.M. on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. New Mexico activists are joining advocacy groups across the country in providing training to people seeking to help immigrants avoid deportation. The SouthWest Organizing Project hosted a training session Wednesday on accompanying immigrants to court and supporting them when immigration authorities arrive. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson, left, arrives at the federal courthouse with spokesman Peter Lavallee before an immigration hearing Wednesday, March 15, 2017, in Seattle. Washington state has filed a backup motion in an effort to keep President Donald Trump's revised travel ban from taking effect as scheduled Thursday. In a new court filing Wednesday, Ferguson said the state supports the arguments made in a related case filed by an immigrant rights group based in Seattle that alleges the ban discriminates against Muslims and violates federal immigration law. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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From left, Diana Otongo, Jonas Mphiri, Marina Aleixo and Umar Choudry share a laugh and a meal inside Aleixo and Choudry's Minneapolis home on March 5, 2017. Aleixo is leading a new initiative called "Dinners Together Minneapolis" where locals seek out newly resettled refugees and immigrants for private dinners at their home. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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Three-year-old Luca Choudry and six-year-old Esther Mphiri build a block tower together in the basement's of Luca's parent's Minneapolis home on March 5, 2017. Marina Aleixo, Luca's mother, is leading a new initiative called "Dinners Together Minneapolis" where locals seek out newly resettled refugees and immigrants for private dinners at their home. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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From left, Marina Aleixo tends to the children's table as Diana Otongo, Umar Choudry and Jonas Mphiri serve themselves a meal of rice, salmon and beef stroganoff inside Aleixo and Choudry's Minneapolis home on March 5, 2017. Immigrants themselves, Aleixo and Choudry are inviting immigrant and refugee families to dinner at their home more frequently. "These kind of initiatives can help us gain a better understanding of each other," Aleixo said. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**
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In this Oct. 17, 2016, photo provided by Women Rising, ProtectHer founder Alexis Jones speaks to members of the University of Texas football team, in Austin, Texas. Jones, an author, activist, public speaker and former contestant on the television show "Survivor," has been speaking to college football teams around the country for three years about the treatment of women. Her goal is to rebrand manhood.(Sara Hirsh Bordo/Women Rising via AP)
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who has made Senate Bill 6, prohibiting transgender-friendly bathrooms, a top priority for the senate, speaks with Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, author of the bill, as she presents it on the floor of the senate for debate at the state capitol in Austin, Texas. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, author of Senate Bill 6, prohibiting transgender-friendly bathrooms, speaks with Democratic state Sen. Eddie Lucio, Jr., who has said he will endorse the legislation, as she presents the bill on the floor of the senate for debate at the state capitol in Austin, Texas. At this point, Lucio is the only Democrat supporting the bill. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, author of Senate Bill 6, prohibiting transgender-friendly bathrooms, gathers her notes before she presents the bill on the floor of the senate for debate at the state capitol in Austin, Texas. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador American actress Angelina Jolie, left, sits next to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Italian Filippo Grandi, during The annual lecture of the Sergio Vieira de Mello Foundation at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
