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Protesters march up Fayetteville Street during the annual “Historic Thousands on Jones Street" (HKonJ) march in Raleigh, N.C., on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. The rally was organized to express support for the Affordable Care Act, opposition to President Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico and his executive order on immigration. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP)
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Kansas' Josh Jackson (11) passes the ball around Texas Tech's Anthony Livingston (21) and Zach Smith (11) during an NCAA basketball game Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Brad Tollefson)
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Pro-choice demonstrator Brenda Zee, right, confronts anti-abortion activist Susan Sutherland, of Colorado Right to Life, during a rally in front of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in Denver, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. Anti-abortion activists emboldened by the new administration of President Donald Trump staged rallies around the country Saturday calling for the federal government to cut off payments to Planned Parenthood. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Jeff McNamara wears a Trump campaign hat as he waves a U.S. flag during an anti-abortion rally in front of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in Denver, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) ** FILE **
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Abortion opponents rally outside Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. Rallies aimed at urging Congress and President Donald Trump to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood are scheduled across the country. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)
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Supporters of Planned Parenthood hold counter protest as abortion opponents demonstrate outside Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. Rallies aimed at urging Congress and President Donald Trump to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood are scheduled across the country. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)
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Abortion opponents pray and protest outside Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minn., on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. Rallies aimed at urging Congress and President Donald Trump to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood are scheduled across the country. (AP Photo/Jeff Baenen)
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FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2017 file photo, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas talk to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans love cutting taxes, especially if they were authored by a president named Barack Obama. But as they push their wobbly effort to erase his health care overhaul, they’re divided over whether to repeal the levies the law imposed to pay for its expanded coverage for millions of Americans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Kody Brown, center left, from TV's reality show "Sister Wives," and his wife Janelle Brown, left, and a group of pro-polygamy protesters rally at the state Capitol Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Several hundred people in polygamist relationships say they want Utah lawmakers and law enforcement officials to know that they're not going away and should be allowed the freedom to practice their plural marriages. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A group of pro-polygamy protesters rally at the state Capitol Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Several hundred people in polygamist relationships say they want Utah lawmakers and law enforcement officials to know that they're not going away and should be allowed the freedom to practice their plural marriages. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Kody Brown, center, from TV's reality show "Sister Wives," marches during a protest at the state Capitol Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Several hundred people in polygamist relationships say they want Utah lawmakers and law enforcement officials to know that they're not going away and should be allowed the freedom to practice their plural marriages. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Pro-polygamy protesters holds signs during a rally at the state Capitol Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Several hundred people in polygamist relationships say they want Utah lawmakers and law enforcement officials to know that they're not going away and should be allowed the freedom to practice their plural marriages. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Dr. Alireza Shamshirsaz, an Iranian-born professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, is part of the Texas Children's Fetal Center,'one of only a handful of centers in the world capable of performing complicated open fetal surgeries. The Houston surgeon has cancelled a trip to Iran to perform life-saving surgeries because of uncertainty over the future of President Donald Trump's refugee and immigration travel ban. (Allen S. Kramer/Texas Children's Hospital via AP)
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A beer can is one of hundreds of items left behind by migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border on display in the "State of Exception" exhibit, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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A tattered sweatshirt is one of hundreds of items left behind by migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border on display in the "State of Exception" exhibit, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in New York. The exhibit at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at the Parsons School of Design continues through April 17. In a written statement the curators said the exhibit, "honors the sheer materiality of the migrant experience. These objects are fragments of a history of both suffering and resiliency, and the images and voices reveal the desolation, hope and trials of their odysseys." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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A pile of mobile phones are some of the items left behind by migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border on display in the "State of Exception" exhibit, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in New York. The exhibit at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at the Parsons School of Design continues through April 17. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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A pile of combs and tooth brushes are some of the items left behind by migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border on display in the "State of Exception" exhibit, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in New York. The items were collected as part of the research of University of Michigan anthropologist Jason De León's Undocumented Migration Project. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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An empty water jug is one of hundreds of items left behind by migrants illegally crossing the border into the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona on display in the "State of Exception" exhibit, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in New York. The exhibit at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at the Parsons School of Design continues through April 17. Writing on the jug reads in Spanish, "buena suerte amigas" or, "good luck friends." (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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A Dora the Explorer backpack is one of hundreds of backpacks left behind by migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexican border on display in the "State of Exception" exhibit, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 in New York. The exhibit at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at the Parsons School of Design continues through April 17. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Refugee supporters look on after Abdisellam Hassen Ahmed, a Somali refugee who had been stuck in limbo after President Donald Trump temporarily banned refugee entries, arrival at Salt Lake International Airport, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Ahmed meet his daughter for the first time. Ahmed is among a wave of refugees around the country making belated arrivals after their trips were cancelled several weeks ago after Trump's executive order. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
