Social Issues

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West African migrants walk on train tracks on their way toward the border with Macedonia near the town of Evzonoi, Greece, in this Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)

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Migrants have been using several methods to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, such as hopping aboard trains bound for the north. Critics of President Obama's amnesty say immigration enforcement has become lax and that too many beds at processing facilities for illegal crossers in the U.S. continue to go unused. (Associated Press)

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Love to help you, but our budget's been cut. (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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In this photo made available Thursday, April 23, 2015, migrants crowd and inflatable dinghy as rescue vassel "Denaro" of the Italian Coast Guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. European Union leaders gathering for an extraordinary summit are facing calls from all sides to take emergency action to save lives in the Mediterranean, where hundreds of migrants are missing and feared drowned in recent days. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP Photo)

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker broke from the GOP by saying that there should be limits on how many legal immigrants should be allowed to enter the U.S. (Associated Press)

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Migrants wait to disembark from the Italian Navy vessel 'Chimera' in the harbor of Salerno, Italy, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Italy pressed the European Union on Wednesday to devise concrete, robust steps to stop the deadly tide of migrants on smugglers' boats in the Mediterranean, including setting up refugee camps in countries bordering Libya. Italian Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti also said human traffickers must be targeted with military intervention. (AP Photo/Francesco Pecoraro) ** FILE **

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A "Cosmo Harms Minor" campaign seeks to make the magazine adults-only. (Image courtesy of National Center on Sexual Exploitation).

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Marvel is changing the sexuality of its character Iceman after decades as a straight man. (Image: Marvel Comics)

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A young man waits on a bus to leave Debaltseve, Ukraine. The consequences of continued emigration by Ukraine's elite remains a problem, according to the study, causing "Ukraine's loss of the most educated, qualified, active and entrepreneurial population." Migration and emigration contribute to a lack of medical, educational and engineering professionals in local labor markets, the study said. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., center, flanked by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, and Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., right, joins in criticizing President Barack Obama on immigration, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, during a Republican news conference about the immigration crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border, Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death is now on Blu-ray. (Courtesy (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, kisses House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, in the Rose Garden of the White House before President Barack Obama's remarks to members of Congress, Tuesday, April 21, 2015 in Washington. Obama thanked those who supported H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 to improve the affordability and quality of health care for the youngest and oldest in the nation. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Montana Gov. Steve Bullock signs the Bully Free Montana Act Tuesday, April 21, 2015, at Jefferson Elementary in Helena, Mont., while bill sponsor Rep. Kim Dudik, left, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau look on. (AP Photo/Lisa Baumann)

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LeVar Burton touted the children's program's "Reading Rainbow," which is transitioning from a PBS TV show to an online entity promoting literacy.

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Demonstrators against the death penalty stand outside the Moakley Federal Court during first day of the penalty phase for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 in Boston. The government then began calling to the stand what is expected to be a long line of witnesses who lost legs or loved ones in the April 15, 2013, bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260. An MIT police officer was shot to death days later as Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, tried to get away. (John Tlumacki /The Boston Globe via AP) BOSTON HERALD OUT, QUINCY OUT; NO SALES

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FILE - In this April 12, 2013 file photo, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Michele Leonhart testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. An Obama administration official says the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to resign soon. Leonhart is a career drug agent who has led the agency since 2007 and is the second woman to hold the job. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Alice Dreger, a Northwestern University ethicist and author, sent out a long series of critical tweets last week as she attended her son's high school sex-education class on abstinence. (Twitter/@AliceDreger)