The Arizona Removal Operations Coordination Center at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport houses a temporary holding facility for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that houses people detained for immigration violations before they are either flown to long-term detention centers or are deported. (Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy/Arizona Mirror)

A barge that broke through a levee on the Inner Harbor Canal sits on top of houses and cars Sept. 16, 2005, in New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward neighborhood. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, left, and Texas Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, right, listen as Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu speaks to reporters during a press conference at the DuPage County Democratic Party headquarters on Aug. 3, 2025 in Carol Stream, Illinois. Wu was with a group of Democratic Texas lawmakers who left the state so a quorum could not be reached during a special session called to redistrict the state. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Pastors Tanner Cartwright, left, and Jerry Dorris, of the Reformation Church in Shelbyville, stand for a portrait, Aug. 5, 2025. The church has encouraged its members to check out and not return LBGTQ-related books from the public library. (Kentucky Lantern photo by David Stephenson)

The Lime Kiln community solar project in Howard County, pictured after a ribbon cutting ceremony on July 8, 2025. The 3.2 megawatt project was developed by Chaberton Energy, which has said that the state's new solar law is likely to ease solar development. (Photo by Christine Condon/Maryland Matters)

Lenexa City Council member Melanie Arroyo receives a standing ovation after revealing during the Aug. 5, 2025, council meeting that city police investigated her citizenship status and required her to prove her citizenship. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)