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    SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 29: A man hangs onto the railing of North Curl Curl ocean pool after winds and rain battered Sydney last night producing large swell on January 29, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. Parts of Sydney are experienced record rainfall after ex-cyclone Oswald swept through the city last night. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
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    BUNDABERG, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 29: A man comforts his daughter on their roof as they inspect damage to their neighbourhood as parts of southern Queensland experiences record flooding in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Oswald on January 29, 2013 in Bundaberg, Australia.Four deaths have been confirmed and thousands have been evacuated in Bundaberg as the city faces it's worst flood disaster in history. Rescue and evacuation missions continue today as emergency services prepare to move patients from Bundaberg Hospital to Brisbane amid fears the hospital could lose power. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)
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    Third placed Mikaela Shiffrin of USA passes a gate during the women's parallel slalom at the FIS Ski World Cup in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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    President Barack Obama turns to leave after shaking hands and speaking about immigration at Del Sol High School, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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    Four-year-old Melody Kerley plays on the swings with her sister Madalynn, 3, and mother Michelle, at North School Park in Arlington Heights, Ill. on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Illinois residents who have been whiplashed by weather extremes are enjoying the temperatures that soared into the mid-60s Tuesday, exactly one week after they bundled in parkas and wool hats against subzero temperatures and brutal wind chills. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, George LeClaire)
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    Retired miner Larry Knisell, 63, of Morgantown, W. Va. is arrested during a protest by the United Mine Workers of America, at Peabody Energy headquarters in St. Louis on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Ten union mine workers have been arrested following a protest outside Peabody Energy headquarters. Workers and retirees were seeking to draw attention to what they consider poor treatment from Patriot Coal Corp., a company spun off from Peabody five years ago. A hearing on Patriot's bankruptcy was Tuesday in St. Louis. Mine workers said the protest was a bid to save health care and pension benefits that could be stripped away in Chapter 11 proceedings. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stephanie S. Cordle)
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    Retired Peabody miner Dale Walcher, 68, of Litchfield, Ill. right, holds up a sign during a rally in front of the federal courthouse before marching four blocks to Peabody Energy headquarters in St. Louis on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Ten union mine workers have been arrested following a protest outside Peabody Energy headquarters. Workers and retirees were seeking to draw attention to what they consider poor treatment from Patriot Coal Corp., a company spun off from Peabody five years ago. A hearing on Patriot's bankruptcy was Tuesday in St. Louis. Mine workers said the protest was a bid to save health care and pension benefits that could be stripped away in Chapter 11 proceedings. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Stephanie S. Cordle)
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    An Iranian Zoroastrian priest sets fire to an already prepared pile of wood, in the Sadeh festival, an ancient Zoroastrians' feast celebrating the creation of fire, outside the capital of Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Followers of Iran's minority Zoroastrian religion gathered after sunset to mark Sadeh, an ancient mid-winter feast dating to Iran's pre-Islamic past that is also drawing new interest from Muslims. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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    Iranian Zoroastrian youth carry torches to set fire on an already prepared pile of wood, during the Sadeh festival, an ancient Zoroastrians' feast celebrating the creation of fire, outside the capital of Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Followers of Iran's minority Zoroastrian religion gathered after sunset to mark Sadeh _ an ancient mid-winter feast dating to Iran's pre-Islamic past that is also drawing new interest from Muslims. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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    Opponents to gay marriage pray during a demonstration in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The French government has presented a plan for debate in Parliament to legalize gay marriage and adoption. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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    Winner Marcel Hirscher of Austria passes a gate during the men's parallel slalom at the FIS Ski World Cup in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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    A girl cries in front of a makeshift memorial outside the Kiss nightclub where a fire killed over 230 people in Santa Maria, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The repercussions of a tragic nightclub fire in southern Brazil widened Tuesday as mayors around the country cracked down on such venues in their own cities and investigators searched two other nightspots owned by a partner in the club that caught ablaze. Most of the dead were college students 18 to 21 years old, but they also included some minors. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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    W.P. Andrew Lee, M.D. talks about the bilateral arm transplant on Infantryman Brendan M. Marocco during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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    A Bahraini girl stands with a candle during a candlelight march for Qassim Habib, 8, in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Opposition groups say the boy died from respiratory problems triggered by heavy tear gas. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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    Zambia's Emmanuel Mayuka, left, attacks against Burkina Faso's Bakary Kone, right, during their African Cup of Nations Group C soccer match at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, South Africa, Tuesday Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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    A snowman is partly melted in a park in Kassel, central Germany, on January 29, 2013. After days of a cold spell, temperatures rise again over the freezing point in many parts of the country. AFP PHOTO / UWE ZUCCHI GERMANY OUTUWE ZUCCHI/AFP/Getty Images
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    Fishermen work in the Grand River near the Sixth Street dam in Grand Rapids, Mich. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/MLive.com, Chris Clark)
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    Pigeons roost on utility lines on a mild winter day on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Rensselaer, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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    Sunderland's Steven Fletcher, right, vies for the ball with Swansea City's Chico Flores, left, during their English Premier League soccer match at the Stadium of Light, Sunderland, England, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
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    John Catsimatidis flashes a peace sign as arrives for a news conference on the steps of City Hall in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Catsimatidis announced his intention to run for New York City mayor. The Republican joins an increasingly crowded field of GOP, Democratic and other candidates seeking to succeed the term-limited, Democrat-turned-Republican-turned independent Bloomberg. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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    A man passes near to the dead bodies next to a river, in the neighborhood of Bustan al-Qasr in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The bodies of at least 65 men, many of them with their hands bound behind their back, were found on the muddy banks of a small river, and the rebels and government forces blamed each other for the mass killing. (AP Photo/Abdullah al-Yassin)
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    President Barack Obama shakes hands after speaking about immigration at Del Sol High School, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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    A lone jogger makes his way along Lake Michigan in unseasonably warm temperatures at Chicago's North Ave. Beach Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Chicago. Unseasonably warm temperatures broke records in the Chicago area with thunderstorm expected to usher in freezing temperatures and snow Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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    Despite unseasonably warm temperatures, Don Skaiicki ice fishes in Chicago's Belmont Harbor along Lake Michigan Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in Chicago. Unseasonably warm temperatures broke records in the Chicago area with thunderstorm expected to usher in freezing temperatures and snow Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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    A video image of the American flag is displayed as Eric Liang, left, and Greg Mitchell perform maintenance on the giant LED sign outside the Charlotte Convention Center Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Liang, who works for the sign manufacturer, traveled from China to work with Mitchell of Charlotte-based Sign World Inc. Mitchell said the sign was having issues with the time and temperature display and repairs would be completed this week. TODD SUMLIN - tsumlin@charlotteobserver.com
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    Ultra Orthodox Jewish men stand at a train station in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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    Egyptian protesters celebrate the capture of a state security armored vehicle that demonstrators commandeered during clashes with security forces and brought to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Egypt’s army chief warned Tuesday of the “the collapse of the state” if the political crisis roiling the nation for nearly a week continues, but said the armed forces will respect the right of Egyptians to protest. A protester waves the Egyptian national flag. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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    A Hayward Gallery employee poses for photographers inside artist Anthony McCall's installation entitled 'You and I, Horizontal' at the gallery in London, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The exhibition 'Light Show' featuring 25 illuminated installations and sculptures by artists from the 1960's to the present, will run from Jan. 30, 2013 to April 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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    An Indian man walks on a road leading to an illuminated Raisina hill, which houses India's most important ministries and presidential palace, after the Beating Retreat ceremony, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The ceremony is held annually on Jan. 29, which marks the end of republic day celebrations. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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    A newly initiated Hindu monk of the Shri Panchayati Naya Udasin "akhara" or sect, puts on a turban during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to attend the Maha Kumbh festival, which is one of the world's largest religious gatherings that lasts 55 days and falls every 12 years. During the festival pilgrims bathe in the holy Ganges River in a ritual they believe can wash away their sins. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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    A newly initiated Hindu monk of the Shri Panchayati Naya Udasin "akhara" or sect, peers from behind a tent during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to attend the Maha Kumbh festival, which is one of the world's largest religious gatherings that lasts 55 days and falls every 12 years. During the festival pilgrims bathe in the holy Ganges River in a ritual they believe can wash away their sins. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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    Malian soldiers guard suspected Islamist extremists after throwing them in the back of the army truck in Gao, northern Mali, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Four suspects were arrested after being found by a youth militia calling themselves the "Gao Patrolmen". Malian soldiers prevented the mob from lynching them. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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    French chef Paul Bocuse tastes a dish during the "Bocuse d'Or" (Golden Bocuse) trophy, at the 14th World Cuisine contest, in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The contest, a sort of world cup of the cuisine, was started in 1987 by Lyon chef Paul Bocuse to reward young international culinary talents. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
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    Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., emerges after a unanimous vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approving him to become America's next top diplomat, replacing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Kerry, who has served on the Foreign Relations panel for 28 years and led the committee for the past four, is expected to be swiftly confirmed by the whole Senate later Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    Models wear creations from "TCN" during a 080 Barcelona fashion show in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Jan. 29,2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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    A police officer holds the Egyptian national flag during clashes with anti-government protesters, background, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Intense fighting for days around central Tahrir Square engulfed two landmark hotels and forced the U.S. Embassy to suspend public services on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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    Egyptian riot police fire tear gas at protesters, not seen, during clashes in front of the Semiramis Intercontinental hotel, background near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt,Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Since Saturday, the Nile-side Semiramis Intercontinental has been on the front line of clashes between riot police and angry youths, with both sides throwing stones at each other along the city’s famed Corniche promenade while tear gas wafted several stories up inside the building. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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    Egyptian protesters clash with riot police, not seen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt,Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Intense fighting for days around central Tahrir Square engulfed two landmark hotels and forced the U.S. Embassy to suspend public services on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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    Girls cry in front of a makeshift memorial outside the Kiss nightclub where a fire killed over 230 people in Santa Maria, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. The repercussions of a tragic nightclub fire in southern Brazil widened Tuesday as mayors around the country cracked down on such venues in their own cities and investigators searched two other nightspots owned by a partner in the club that caught ablaze. Most of the dead were college students 18 to 21 years old, but they also included some minors. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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    Retired Infantryman Brendan M. Marrocco uses his transplanted arm to brush his hair back during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 29. 2013 at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore. Marrocco received a transplant of two arms from a deceased donor after losing all four limbs in a 2009 roadside bomb attack in Iraq. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) (C) and Senate Majority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) (R) leave after they spoke to members of the press after the weekly Senate Democratic Policy Luncheon at the U.S. Capitol January 29, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats gathered at the luncheon to discuss Senate Democratic agendas. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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    Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, listens to a question during a news conference after the weekly Democratic Policy Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. President Barack Obama sought to build on gathering political momentum for sweeping revisions to the nation's immigration laws, giving cautious endorsement to a new Senate blueprint and offering more details of his own plan. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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    TODD SUMLIN - tsumlin@charlotteobserver.com
    The Grand Animal Walk of The Greatest Show On Earth heads into uptown Charlotte, Tuesday, January 29, 2013. The annual event heralds the arrival of the 142nd Edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, offering nine performances at Time Warner Cable Arena, January 30 - February 3, 2013. TODD SUMLIN - tsumlin@charlotteobserver.com
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    MAFRAQ, JORDAN - JANUARY 29: A boy carries a mattress as Syrian refugees go about their daily business in the Za’atari refugee camp on January 29, 2013 in Mafrq, Jordan. Record numbers of refugees are fleeing the violence and bombings in Syria to cross the borders to safety in northern Jordan and overwhelming the Za'atari camp. The Jordanian government are appealing for help with the influx of refugees as they struggle to cope with the sheer numbers arriving in the country. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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    BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 29: German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) watches a Carnival dancer perform as Carnival delegates from all over Germany look on on January 29, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Merkel received the delegates at an annual ceremony at the Chancellery. Germany is in the midst of Carnival season, which ends with its highpoint between Rose Monday and Ash Wednesday in a tradition common in several countries in Europe and the Americas. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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    Entertainment Tonight reporter Rocsi Diaz talks to Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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    TUCSON, AZ - JANUARY 29: Sal Zizzo #7 of the Portland Timbers attempts to control the ball pressured by Walter Martinez #39 of the Colorado Rapids during The Desert Friendlies Presented By FC Tucson at Kino Sports Complex on January 29, 2013 in Tucson, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
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    Amy Davis - MCT
    Brendan Marrocco attends a press conference, January 29, 2013, held at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, with his team of doctors to discuss his bilateral arm transplant surgery, which was done on Dec. 18, 2012. Behind him is Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee. Marrocco lost all four limbs in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq in 2009. Marrocco, from Staten Island, New York, is the first successful double arm transplant at Hopkins, and only the 7th patient in the U.S. to undergo this surgery. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun/MCT)
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    Jennifer Jones, of New Orleans, wearing Mardi Gras attire dances in the isles of the Superdome during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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    NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 29: Domminican immigrant Yordi Guzman, 16, sleeps against his mother Hingrid Guzman while awaiting an interview for his U.S. citizenship application at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), district office on January 29, 2013 in New York City. Some 118,000 immigrants applied for U.S. citizenship in the New York City district, and 2,500 children received citizenship certificates there in 2012. Although minors of naturalized immigrants usually receive U.S. citizenship, they must go through a process at the USCIS in order to receive legal certificates. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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    NEW ORLEANS, LA - JANUARY 29: Michael Wilhoite #57 of the San Francisco 49ers yells as he answers questions from the media during Super Bowl XLVII Media Day ahead of Super Bowl XLVII at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on January 29, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The San Francisco 49ers will take on the Baltimore Ravens on February 3, 2013 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
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    San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh exchanges hats as they prepare for a team photo during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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    NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 29: Malaika Chaudhary, who's parents immigrated to the United States from Pakistan, participates in a U.S. citizenship ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), district office on January 29, 2013 in New York City. Some 118,000 immigrants applied for U.S. citizenship and 2,500 children received citizenship certificates in the New York City dictrict in 2012. Although underage children of naturalized immigrants usually receive U.S. citizenship, they must go through a process at the USCIS in order to receive legal certificates. Children born in the United States are American, regardless of the immigrant status of their parents. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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    NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 29: An immigrant from Togo awaits an interview to receive a citizenship certificate for her child at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), district office on January 29, 2013 in New York City. Some 118,000 immigrants applied for U.S. citizenship and 2,500 children received citizenship certificates in the New York City dictrict in 2012. Although minors of naturalized immigrants usually receive U.S. citizenship, they must go through a process at the USCIS in order to receive legal certificates. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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    MAFRAQ, JORDAN - JANUARY 29: Young children gesture as Syrian refugees go about their daily business in the Za’atari refugee camp on January 29, 2013 in Mafraq, Jordan. Record numbers of refugees are fleeing the violence and bombings in Syria to cross the borders to safety in northern Jordan and overwhelming the Za'atari camp. The Jordanian government are appealing for help with the influx of refugees as they struggle to cope with the sheer numbers arriving in the country. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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    San Francisco 49ers defensive tackle Will Tukuafu (48) flexes his muscles with reporter Karim Mendiburu during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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    MAFRAQ, JORDAN - JANUARY 29: People view shoes for sale as Syrian refugees go about their daily business in the Za’atari refugee camp on January 29, 2013 in Mafraq, Jordan. Record numbers of refugees are fleeing the violence and bombings in Syria to cross the borders to safety in northern Jordan and overwhelming the Za'atari camp. The Jordanian government are appealing for help with the influx of refugees as they struggle to cope with the sheer numbers arriving in the country. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves goodbye after holding a "Global Townterview" at the Newseum January 29, 2013 in Washington, DC. Clinton took questions from youths from around the world via satellite and social media including Twitter, Facebook and Skype in advance of her last day at the State Department Friday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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    Biologist Fernando Heredia inspects the quality of a crystallization pond at the Exportadora de Sal (ESSA) harvest fields in Guerrero Negro, Mexico, on Wednesday, Jan. 24. 2013. Exportadora de Sal (ESSA), a joint venture between Fidecomiso Mining Development Corporation and Mitsubishi, is one of the leading producers and suppliers of salt for the chlorine-alkali industry in the Pacific Rim. Photographer: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Fernando Heredia
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    LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 29: A man admires an art installation by Ann Veronica Janssens entitled 'Rose' which features in the Hayward Gallery's exhibition 'Light Show' on January 29, 2013 in London, England. 'Light Show' features 25 illuminated installations and sculptures by major international artists from the 1960s to the present day. The show opens to the general public on January 30, 2013 and runs until April 28, 2013. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
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