Social Issues

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In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 photo, Mizgin Rashid, 23 and 5 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, poses for a picture outside her shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "I feel tired all the time, it is not easy to live under these circumstances, I just wish before I deliver I am settled down in a country and a home and not deliver in this camp.", Rashid said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 photo, Zubaida al-Rakad, 35 and 7 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from Deir el-Zour, holds her son Osama, 18 months, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, during snowfall at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "Nothing was left for us in Deir el-Zour, we remained until the end and had no option but to leave and remain safe or stay and die, I wish they just let us move out of here to any country that welcomes us", al-Rakad said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Monday, Jan. 9, 2017 photo, Rania Askar, 31, a Syrian refugee from from Deir el-Zour, who lost her child in her 6th month of pregnancy, poses for a picture while holding her daughter Maya, 4, outside her shelter at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "I didn't know that there was something wrong with my pregnancy until the day I woke up bleeding, I am so sad my heart is broken, this wouldn't happen if I was surrounded by my sisters in Germany." Askar said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 photo, Khanem Haji Murad, 20 and 9 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from Kobani, poses for a picture outside her shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "All I want is to leave this camp and go to Germany and live around my sisters, it is so cold and I can't imagine having my first child in such environment.", Haji Murad said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016 photo, Shireen Daoud, 25 and 3 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from al-Hasaka, holds her son Herman, 2, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, during snowfall at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "When we left Syria after our home was destroyed we were hoping to find a new safe place, but our dreams had been buried here in Greece as we are stuck, I want to go to Germany to have a better life for my family.", Daoud said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 photo, Zaina Hammoush, 24 and 9 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, stands with her daughter Razan, 6, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "All we want is a safe place for my family to go to, just the basic of what a human needs, if it wasn't for my children we would had never left our home in Aleppo." Hammoush said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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In this Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 photo, Maha Abdulqadir, age 30 and 3 months pregnant, a Syrian refugee from al-Hasaka, holds her daughter Zinnar, 5, while posing for a picture by the entrance of her shelter, during snowfall at the refugee camp of Ritsona, Greece. "We fled from war, nothing left for us in Syria, I miss my home everything was taken from us, now in Greece we are on hold without any knowledge of what is next.", Abdulqadir said. Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in Greece’s migrant camps this winter are taking their toll on everyone living in them with expectant mothers and babies especially feel the brunt. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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FILE- In this Aug. 31, 2004 file photo, disabled former New York City police officer Steven McDonald addresses delegates, as family members stand beside him at Madison Square Garden during the Republican National Convention in New York. McDonald, who was paralyzed by a bullet and became an international voice for peace after he publicly forgave the gunman, died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, at the age of 59. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)

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"There won't be a deportation force," House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told CNN in a town hall. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this March 22, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Grand Theater of Havana, Cuba. President Barack Obama is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban national who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, a senior administration official said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017, file photo, Texas guard Tevin Mack (0) moves the ball up court against the TCU during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, in Austin, Texas. Texas has suspended Mack indefinitely for an unspecified violation of team rules. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017, file photo, Texas guard Tevin Mack (0) falls t the floor after he was fouled during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against the TCU, in Austin, Texas. Texas has suspended Mack indefinitely for an unspecified violation of team rules. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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In this March 19, 2013, file photo, the globe and anchor stand at the entrance to Camp Lejeune, N.C. (AP Photo/Allen Breed, File)

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper delivers his annual State of the State address to lawmakers and guests, inside the state legislature, in Denver, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Hickenlooper set his priorities on roads and housing, health care and pot regulation when he addressed the just-convened 2017 Legislature. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper delivers his annual State of the State address to lawmakers and guests, inside the state legislature, in Denver, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Hickenlooper set his priorities on roads and housing, health care and pot regulation when he addressed the just-convened 2017 Legislature. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Women's March on Washington promotional image (Eventbrite).

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WASHINGTON REDSKINS: HEALTH AND WELLNESS - Advertising Supplement cover (January 13, 2017)

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About 50 fast food workers protest the nomination of former Hardees CEO Andrew Puzder to lead the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, outside the current headquarters of the fast food chain in downtown St. Louis. Fast food workers claim Puzder is unfit for the position because of his policies toward employees as Hardees boss. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

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FILE - In this July 7, 2015, file photo, immigrants from El Salvador who entered the country illegally walk through a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. Central Americans attempting to enter the United States illegally on the country's border with Mexico helped drive a 15 percent increase in immigration arrests during the 2016 fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security figures released Friday, Dec. 30. 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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A migrant sits on a chair outside a tent at the snow-covered refugee camp of Vagiohori village, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) east of the Greek city of Thessaloniki, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. The European Commission said conditions for refugees on islands and other camps where they are housed in tents despite severe cold weather, is "untenable. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)