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Advocacy groups have encouraged illegal immigrants to exercise their rights and to resist deportation efforts, resulting in a spike in noncompliance. (Associated Press/File)
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This undated photo provided by the Centre County Correctional Facility shows Jeffrey Sandusky who was charged Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, with multiple charges of sexual offenses involving children. Jeffrey Sandusky is one of former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's sons who is serving a lengthy prison sentence for sexual abuse. (Centre County Correctional Facility via AP)
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Kansas state Rep. Sydney Carlin, left, D-Manhattan, makes a point during a House Appropriations Committee discussion of budget issues, as Rep. Don Schroeder, right, R-Hesston, watches, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The committee has endorsed budget-balancing proposals that would allow the state to avoid cutting education funding (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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FILE - In an April 17, 2014, file photo, Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver, left, R-Lancaster, hugs House Speaker Beth Harwell, R-Nashville, right, on the final day of the 108th General Assembly in Nashville, Tenn. Gay rights advocates are raising the alarm about a Tennessee bill sponsored by Weaver they say could make it impossible for same-sex couples to be recognized as the legal parents of children. The bill would repeal a 1977 state law that declared children born as a result of artificial insemination to be the legitimate offspring of the husband and wife. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
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An elderly man looks the exhibition by The Albanian National Coastline Agency, in Tirana, on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 showing underwater finds of potential archaeological significance.Albania is promoting the archaeological finds in the waters off its southwest coast to raise public interest and to attract attention of decision-makers who can help preserve the discoveries. (AP Photo Hektor Pustina)
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This undated picture provided on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 by the Albanian National Coastline Agency shows a shipwreck discovered by the RPM's Hercules research vessel in Ionian Sea, Albania. The country is promoting the archaeological finds in the waters off its southwest coast to raise public interest and to attract attention of decision-makers who can help preserve the discoveries. The Albanian National Coastline Agency opened an exhibition on Monday, Feb. 13 of 30 pictures showing underwater finds of potential archaeological significance from the last decade. (The Albanian National Coastline Agency via AP)
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This undated picture provided on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, by the Albanian National Coastline Agency shows a shipwreck discovered by the RPM's Hercules research vessel in Ionian Sea, Albania. The country is promoting the archaeological finds in the waters off its southwest coast to raise public interest and to attract attention of decision-makers who can help preserve the discoveries. The Albanian National Coastline Agency opened an exhibition on Monday, Feb. 13 of 30 pictures showing underwater finds of potential archaeological significance from the last decade. (The Albanian National Coastline Agency via AP)
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This undated picture provided on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, by the Albanian National Coastline Agency shows a shipwreck discovered by the RPM's Hercules research vessel in Ionian Sea, Albania. The country is promoting the archaeological finds in the waters off its southwest coast to raise public interest and to attract attention of decision-makers who can help preserve the discoveries. The Albanian National Coastline Agency opened an exhibition on Monday, Feb. 13 of 30 pictures showing underwater finds of potential archaeological significance from the last decade. (The Albanian National Coastline Agency via AP)
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In this Wednesday, Feb, 1, 2017 photo, activist Samia Assed stands in front of a mural at the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice coalition in Albuquerque, N.M. Assed, a Palestinian-American, has now turned her fears over Donald Trump's election into action, joining what advocacy groups said are hundreds, possibly thousands of women of color, who are exploring making a run for public office. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
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From left, Fadel Alshawwa, Jean Pierre Venegas, Manager of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council, and Bill Spanjer, Municipal Emergency Coordinator for Emerson-Franklin bring blankets and pillows into a community hall for refugees that may walk across the border in Emerson, Manitoba, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2016. Refugees have been crossing into Canada at Emerson and authorities had a town hall meeting in Emerson to discuss their options. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Fadel Alshawwa, Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council, brings blankets into a community hall for refugees that may walk across the border in Emerson, Manitoba, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2016. Refugees have been crossing into Canada at Emerson and authorities had a town hall meeting in Emerson to discuss their options. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Despite protests against President Trump's immigration ban and the courts ruling against him, a report finds terrorist are coming from the seven "banned" countries. (Associated Press)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. Advocacy groups said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are rounding up people in large numbers around the country, with roundups in Southern California being especially heavy-handed, as part of stepped-up enforcement under President Donald Trump. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)
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A woman holds a pinata depicting U.S. President Donald Trump during a march demanding respect for Mexico and its migrants, in the face of perceived hostility from the Trump administration, in Mexico City, Sunday, Feb 12, 2017. About 20,000 people, many dressed in white, some carried Mexican flags, as a sign of unity. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)
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Protesters against the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church gather in front of the St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. About 2,500 people rallied in St. Petersburg on Sunday against the decision of the city authorities to hand over the city's landmark St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson smiles as he speaks with staff members in a hallway before a news conference about a federal appeals court's refusal to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Seattle. The ruling dealt another legal setback to the new administration's immigration policy. In a unanimous decision, the panel of three judges from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block a lower-court ruling that suspended the ban and allowed previously barred travelers to enter the U.S. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is possible. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson listens to a question at a news conference about a federal appeals court's refusal to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Seattle. The ruling dealt another legal setback to the new administration's immigration policy. In a unanimous decision, the panel of three judges from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block a lower-court ruling that suspended the ban and allowed previously barred travelers to enter the U.S. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is possible. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, center, speaks with Solicitor General Noah Purcell, left, and Civil Rights Unit Chief Colleen Melody in a hallway before a news conference about a federal appeals court's refusal to reinstate President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, in Seattle. The ruling dealt another legal setback to the new administration's immigration policy. In a unanimous decision, the panel of three judges from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block a lower-court ruling that suspended the ban and allowed previously barred travelers to enter the U.S. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is possible. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Dallas Police Sgt. Hall, left, speaks with Rives Grogan, 51, of Mansfield, Texas, who wears a red Trump cap, and other anti-abortion protesters, informing them which sidewalks they can use to conduct their protest, outside of the Planned Parenthood South Dallas Surgical Health Services Center, Saturday morning, Feb. 11, 2017, in Dallas. (Ben Torres/The Dallas Morning News via AP) ** FILE **
