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ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, FEB. 5, 2017 - In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 photo, Nina Newell, left, a home health worker, looks through medication for her mother, Maria Mata, right, at her mother's home in Brownsville, Texas. Along Texas' southern border, home health care accounts for more than one in ten total jobs, making the Rio Grande Valley the nation's capital of home health care. ( Michael Ciaglo /Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Doctor Yaser Harawi shows his photos during an interview with the Associated Press in his office in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Harawi, who's lived in Serbia for over thirty years, has found meaning in helping Syrian and other migrants passing through the Balkan country in search of a better future in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Doctor Yaser Harawi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in his office in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Harawi, who's lived in Serbia for over thirty years, has found meaning in helping Syrian and other migrants passing through the Balkan country in search of a better future in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Doctor Yaser Harawi shows photos of his family during an interview with the Associated Press in his office in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Harawi, who's lived in Serbia for over thirty years, has found meaning in helping Syrian and other migrants passing through the Balkan country in search of a better future in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Doctor Yaser Harawi shows his photo during an interview with the Associated Press in his office in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Harawi, who's lived in Serbia for over thirty years, has found meaning in helping Syrian and other migrants passing through the Balkan country in search of a better future in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Doctor Yaser Harawi, right, checks the throat of a migrant in an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Harawi, who lived in Serbia for over thirty years, has found meaning in helping Syrian and other migrants passing through the Balkan country in search of a better future in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Doctor Yaser Harawi, right, checks the throat of a migrant in an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Harawi, who has lived in Serbia for over thirty years, has found meaning in helping Syrian and other migrants passing through the Balkan country in search of a better future in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Doctor Yaser Harawi, right, checks a migrant with a stethoscope in an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Harawi, who has lived in Serbia for over thirty years, has found meaning in helping Syrian and other migrants passing through the Balkan country in search of a better future in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Doctor Yaser Harawi, right, checks a migrant with a stethoscope in an abandoned warehouse in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017. Harawi, who lived in Serbia for over thirty years, has found meaning in helping Syrian and other migrants passing through the Balkan country in search of a better future in Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo, Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program for the Department of Water Resources, plunges the survey tube into the snowpack as he conducts the first snow survey of the season at Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif. Nothing but good news is expected when California does its next regular Sierra snow surveys after last month's huge storms. The state snow survey on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, is important because California gets about a third of its water from Sierra runoff in typical years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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An overflow crowd gathers to hear l discussion about House Bill 37 during a meeting of the House Committee on Higher Education Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Atlanta. Under the bill private colleges that don't cooperate with federal immigration authorities would lose state funding for scholarships and research. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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Santa Ana City Councilman Sal Tinajero, right, urges lawmakers to approve a proposed bill to prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, during a hearing of the Senate Public Safety Committee, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. The committee passed SB54, by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, that if approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor, could create a border-to-border sanctuary in the nation's largest state. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Stephen Spillman)
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Protesters against a scheduled speaking appearance by Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos on the University of California at Berkeley campus march on Telegraph Avenue Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. A small group of people with their faces covered broke windows, hurled fireworks at police officers and threw smoke bombs, prompting UC Berkeley officials to cancel Yiannopoulos's talk Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Gary Otte, convicted of shooting two people to death in back-to-back robberies in February 1992. Ohio Parole Board members are scheduled to discuss Otte's request to spare his life during a Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, hearing, six weeks before his scheduled March 15, 2017, execution. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections via AP, File)
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FILE - In this April 7, 1949 file photo, three Finnish children write "America" on a chalkboard in a class held for children of immigrants detained at Ellis Island in New York City. They range in ages 3 to 11 years old. The American self-image is forever intertwined with the melting pot _ a nation that embraces the world’s wretched refuse, a nation built by immigrants. But America’s immigration history is complicated. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this April 7, 1949 file photo, immigrants look at the view from Ellis Island in New York Harbor. The Manhattan skyline is behind them. The American self-image is forever intertwined with the melting pot _ a nation that embraces the world’s wretched refuse, a nation built by immigrants. But America’s immigration history is complicated. (AP Photo/Fitzsimmons, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 1944 file photo, civilian refugees from occupied Europe arrive at Hoboken, N.J., during World War II. The refugees, who will be given sanctuary for the duration of the war, will go to Fort Ontario, Oswego, N.Y., where an emergency relief shelter was established. Jewish refugees from Europe were blocked during and after World War II _ first because of fears that they might be German sympathizers, then because of fears that they were Communists. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 21, 1951 file photo, Bill Vetesy of Colonia, N.J., holds a picture of his mother and brother as he asks a military police officer inside the fence at Camp Kilmer, N.J., if they are among the 60 Hungarian refugees who arrived at the camp. The first plane load of refugees arrived at nearby McGuire Air Force Base from Vienna earlier in the day. The refugees will be housed at Camp Kilmer until quarters in private homes are made available to them in the United States. (AP Photo/Anthoy Camerano, File)
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FILE - This 1924 file photo shows the registry room at Ellis Island in New York harbor, a gateway to America for millions of immigrants. The American self-image is forever intertwined with the melting pot _ a nation that embraces the world’s wretched refuse, a nation built by immigrants. But America’s immigration history is complicated. (AP Photo/File)
