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Protesters rally against President Trump's refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.President Donald Trump’s immigration order sowed more confusion and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering their opposition to the sweeping measure. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
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Protesters rally against President Trump's refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017.President Donald Trump’s immigration order sowed more confusion and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering their opposition to the sweeping measure. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
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About 30 protesters demonstrate against President Trump's refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. President Donald Trump’s immigration order sowed more confusion and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering their opposition to the sweeping measure. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
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Protesters rally against President Trump's refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. President Donald Trump’s immigration order sowed more confusion and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering their opposition to the sweeping measure. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
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Protesters rally against President Trump's refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. President Donald Trump’s immigration order sowed more confusion and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering their opposition to the sweeping measure. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
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Franklyn Saumell protests against President Trump's refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. President Donald Trump’s immigration order sowed more confusion and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering their opposition to the sweeping measure. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
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Protesters rally against President Trump's refugee ban at Miami International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (C.M. Guerrero/El Nuevo Herald via AP)
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James Badue, who is with the Minnesota NAACP, leads other opponents in a chant: "No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here," as an airport police officer tries to quiet him, at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, in Minneapolis. Protesters were responding to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, restricting immigration from several Muslim nations. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
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Adrian Hegeman, of St. Paul, holds a sign while joining other opponents to new immigration restrictions to protest an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, restricting immigration from several Muslim nations Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, in Minneapolis. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP)
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In this Jan. 17, 2017 photo, Father Heriberto Vergara looks at a photograph of his slain colleague, Father Rene Robert in St. Augustine, Fla. Last summer, after a multi-state manhunt that started in Florida and stretched to South Carolina, police arrested Steven Murray in connection with the 71-year-old Robert's killing. Murray led authorities into the Georgia woods, where Robert's body lay. Police said Murray had asked Father Rene for a ride, then kidnapped and fatally shot him. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty, a decision that Catholic officials from Georgia and Florida plan to protest on the courthouse steps. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)
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In this Dec. 15, 2016 photo, John Gillespie of San Sebastian Catholic Church in St. Augustine, Fla., reads a letter written by his slain colleague, Father Rene Robert. Last summer, after a multi-state manhunt that started in Florida and stretched to South Carolina, police arrested Steven Murray in connection with the 71-year-old Robert's killing. Murray led authorities into the Georgia woods, where Robert's body lay. Police said Murray had asked Father Rene for a ride, then kidnapped and fatally shot him. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty, a decision that Catholic officials from Georgia and Florida plan to protest on the courthouse steps. (AP Photo/Jason Dearen)
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A Seattle police officer pushes the last group of protesters out of the airport terminal after giving a final dispersal order around 2:00 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017 as about 3,000 people gather at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle to protest President Donald Trump's order that restricts immigration to the U.S. Trump signed an executive order Friday that bans legal U.S. residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. for 90 days and puts an indefinite hold on a program resettling Syrian refugees. (Genna Martin/seattlepi.com via AP)
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Saffiya Hrahsheh, center, is helped away from police by Liz Bates, left, and others after being pepper sprayed as police made their final dispersal of protesters out to the parking garage as about 3,000 people gather at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump's order that restricts immigration to the U.S. Trump signed an executive order Friday that bans legal U.S. residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. for 90 days and puts an indefinite hold on a program resettling Syrian refugees. (Genna Martin/seattlepi.com via AP)
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FILE - A Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016 file photo of Britain's Mo Farah gesturing on the podium as he waits to receive his gold medal for the men's 5000-meter race during athletics events at the Summer Olympics inside Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, saying Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, the temporary travel ban “seems to have made me an alien” and leaves him unsure whether he can return to his U.S home. Farah is a British citizen who was born in Somalia, one of seven predominantly Muslim nations subject to the executive order signed by Trump that currently bars entry to the United States. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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In this Jan. 25, 2017 photo, artist Christy Hegerty poses next to her painting entitled "The Gift," a part of the group exhibit "This is What TRANS Feels Like" at Wrong Brain Art Collective in Dover, N.H. The New Hampshire art exhibit focuses on what it means to be transgender and the experiences transgender men and women face. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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TIME RELASE FOR SUNDAY JAN 29 AT 0800 ET**FILE-In this Thursday, April 14, 2016 file photo made available by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office, S.C., shows Steven James Murray of Jacksonville, Fla. Murray is a person of interest in the disappearance of a 71-year-old Catholic priest from St. Augustine, Fla. Murray was taken into custody while driving a car in Aiken, SC., belonging to Rev. Rene Robert. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty if Murray is convicted of murder which would be against Father Robert's wishes. (Aiken County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, JAN. 28-29 - In this Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017 photo, from left, David Balondani, Asukulu Ramadhani, Raphael Ngalula, Reid Buchanan, help prepare an apartment in Lexington, Ky. St. Luke United Methodist Church, has "adopted" a Congolese refugee family through Kentucky Refugee Ministries. The team, who all came here through KRM themselves, moved donated furniture into the family's apartment to make it ready for their arrival tonight. St. Luke United Methodist Church hosts a Swahili-speaking service that draws about 115 Congolese each week, and many of them are refugees. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, JAN. 28-29 - In this Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017 photo, from left, Reid Buchanan, David Balondani, Raphael Ngalula, Asukulu Ramadhani, help prepare an apartment in Lexington, Ky. St. Luke United Methodist Church, has "adopted" a Congolese refugee family through Kentucky Refugee Ministries. The team, who all came here through KRM themselves, moved donated furniture into the family's apartment to make it ready for their arrival tonight. St. Luke United Methodist Church hosts a Swahili-speaking service that draws about 115 Congolese each week, and many of them are refugees. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, JAN. 28-29 - In this Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017 photo, Asukulu Ramadhani and Davis Balondani, prepare to hang a calendar as they helped setup an apartment in Lexington, Ky. St. Luke United Methodist Church, has "adopted" a Congolese refugee family through Kentucky Refugee Ministries. The team, who all came here through KRM themselves, moved donated furniture into the family's apartment to make it ready for their arrival tonight. St. Luke United Methodist Church hosts a Swahili-speaking service that draws about 115 Congolese each week, and many of them are refugees. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
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More than 1,000 people gather at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, to protest President Donald Trump's order that restricts immigration to the U.S., Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, in Seattle. President Trump signed an executive order Friday that bans legal U.S. residents and visa-holders from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. for 90 days and puts an indefinite hold on a program resettling Syrian refugees. (Genna Martin/seattlepi.com via AP)
