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		<title>Obama signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/obama-signs-border-bill-to-increase-surveillance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times  August 14, 2010

President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border.
The measure sailed through Congress in little more than a week with broad bipartisan support, demonstrating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANOTHER IMMIGRATION POLICY IS POSSIBLE!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/07/another-immigration-policy-is-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Bacon
Truthout Report
http://www.truth-out.org/another-immigration-policy-is-possible60995
        Thousands of leftwing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner &#8220;Another World is Possible!&#8221;  Among them hundreds added a new subtext:  &#8220;Another Immigration Policy is Possible!&#8221;
        This theme was especially popular among grassroots organizations in immigrant communities.  Today non-traditional worker centers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada:  What Do We Owe Our Guest Workers?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/06/canada-what-do-we-owe-our-guest-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8221;You&#8217;re good enough to work here for a while, but now go home.&#8221;
 The latest batch of more than 175,000 foreign temporary workers in Canada can expect to hear that message. It&#8217;s the deal. We get workers we need to make our economy function better. They get pay and a limited taste of life in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Impact: US-Mexico border isn&#8217;t so dangerous</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/06/ap-impact-us-mexico-border-isnt-so-dangerous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Associated Press Writer Martha Mendoza,– Thu Jun 3, 11:38 am ET
It&#8217;s one of the safest parts of America, and it&#8217;s getting safer.
It&#8217;s the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it actually isn&#8217;t so dangerous after all.
The top four big cities in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupation of Arizona Border Patrol station!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/occupation-of-arizona-border-patrol-station/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 18:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[21 May 2010
Tucson, AZ – More than a dozen people occupied Border Patrol headquarters
at Davis-Monthan Airforce Base today in an act of peaceful resistance. The
group includes members of Indigenous Nations of Arizona, migrants, people
of color and white allies. Six people used chains and other devices to
lock themselves in the building. These Arizona residents disrupted the
Border [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizenship Law Fans Women&#8217;s Fears in Arizona</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/citizenship-law-fans-womens-fears-in-arizona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 20:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By  Sharon Johnson
WeNews correspondent
Arizona&#8217;s new law on checking immigration papers rings special alarms
for women whose new names after marriage or divorce might not match
electronic records. Others in mixed-status relationships fear their
families could get torn apart.
 
http://www.womensenews.org/story/the-nation/100504/citizenship-law-fans-womens-fears-in-arizona 
Full article below:
 Citizenship Law Fans Women&#8217;s Fears in Arizona
By Sharon Johnson
WeNews correspondent
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Arizona&#8217;s new law on checking immigration papers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New immig. reform proposal based on human rights &amp; a comparison chart</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/new-immig-reform-proposal-based-on-human-rights-a-comparison-chart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/new-immig-reform-proposal-based-on-human-rights-a-comparison-chart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from David Bacon &#8211; April 26, 2010)  see comparison chart following letter
Dear friends,
A year ago many organizations and individuals in northern California came
together to affirm the need for an immigration policy based on human rights.
At that meeting, we resolved to work on a strategy for meaningful
immigration reform, centered around an alternative to the kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Goes Over the Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/arizona-goes-over-the-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 18, 2010
Editorial &#8211; NYT

The Arizona Legislature has just stepped off the deep end of the immigration debate, passing a harsh and mean-spirited bill that would do little to stop illegal immigration. What it would do is lead to more racial profiling, hobble local law enforcement, and open government agencies to frivolous, politically driven lawsuits.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona &#8211; one step closer to a police state!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/arizona-one-step-closer-to-a-police-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/arizona-one-step-closer-to-a-police-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona passes tough immigration bill
Los Angeles &#8211; Legislators in Arizona have passed what is being described as the toughest immigration law in the country, directing local police to determine the immigration status of non-criminals if there is reasonable suspicion they are in the country illegally, the Arizona Republic newspaper&#8230;
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		<title>Right wing attempting to end &#8220;citizenship by birth&#8221;!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/right-wing-attempting-to-end-citizenship-by-birth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/right-wing-attempting-to-end-citizenship-by-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigration: &#8216;Birth Tourism&#8217; Industry Markets U.S. Citizenship Abroad &#8211; ABC News
Some legislators, including U.S. Rep. Gary Miller, R-Calif., have called for revising the Constitution to forbid citizenship by birth alone and thereby end the attraction of birth tourists.
Among the foreigners who have given birth here, including international travelers passing through and foreign students studying at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next Meeting April 3, 2pm in Port Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/next-meeting-april-3-2pm-in-port-angeles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/next-meeting-april-3-2pm-in-port-angeles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop The Checkpoints will meet in Port Angeles on Saturday, April 3rd, at 2:00 pm.  Due to Library furlough of workers for a week due to budget cuts, the meeting will be held in a home near the Library.  Please email info@stopthecheckpoints.com or call 360-452-7534 for the meeting location. 
Topic will be:  What real immigration reform should look like and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Need better alternative than Schumer reform bill</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/need-better-alternative-than-schumer-reform-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WE NEED A BETTER ALTERNATIVE
By David Bacon
    OAKLAND, CA  (3/19/09) &#8211; Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham announced Thursday their plan for immigration reform.  Unfortunately, it is a retread, recycling the same bad ideas that led to the defeat of reform efforts over the last five years.  In some ways, their proposal is even worse. 
       [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant rights groups slam Obama, Democrats for slow action with legalization bil</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/immigrant-rights-group-slam-obama-democrats-for-slow-action-with-legalization-bil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By N.C. Aizenman and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 9, 2010; A02

Leaders of nearly a dozen grass-roots immigrant rights groups excoriated President Obama and congressional Democrats on Monday, accusing them of moving too slowly to legalize the status of undocumented immigrants and citing a record number of deportations in 2009.
 &#8221;Our community is angry. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worker ID Card Spurs Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/worker-id-card-spurs-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ID Card for Workers Is at Center of Immigration Plan
By LAURA MECKLER,  MARCH 8, 2010
Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.
 Worker ID Card Spurs Controversy
Lawmakers working to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3/6/10 Meeting-Stop Homeland Security&#8217;s militarizing of NW Washington!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/3610-meeting-stop-homeland-securitys-militarizing-of-nw-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/3610-meeting-stop-homeland-securitys-militarizing-of-nw-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop The Checkpoints meeting on Saturday, March 6 at 4:00 pm at the Port Angeles Library (Note new time &#8211; 4:00 pm) will plan actions to protest the increasing police state tactics in northwestern Washington State.  Senator Murray wants funding to keep the huge homeland security headquarters in Bellingham open indefinitely.  It was set up &#8220;temporarily&#8221; at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit Points to Guest Worker Program Flaws</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/lawsuit-points-to-guest-worker-program-flaws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/lawsuit-points-to-guest-worker-program-flaws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suit Points to Guest Worker Program Flaws 
By JULIA PRESTON  February 2, 2010  New York Times
Immigration authorities worked closely with a marine oil-rig company in Mississippi to discourage protests by temporary guest workers from India over their job conditions, including advising managers to send some workers back to India, according to new testimony in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some farmworker protection rules restored</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/some-farmworker-protection-rules-restored/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/some-farmworker-protection-rules-restored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farmworker protections taken away by Pres,Bush have been restored 2-13-2010]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO Report: Immigration enforcement harms workers</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/afl-cio-report-immigration-enforcement-harms-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/afl-cio-report-immigration-enforcement-harms-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[



TUESDAY,       OCTOBER 27, 2009
Report: Immigration enforcement harms workers
A comprehensive       report issued today by the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work and the       National Employment Law Project finds that the federal government’s       immigration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Anti-Terror&#8221; Patrol Planes in Bellingham</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/10/anti-terror-patrol-planes-in-bellingham/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/10/anti-terror-patrol-planes-in-bellingham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boys are bragging about their new technology! Check it out:
Bellingham (WA) among sites that will get anti-terror patrol planes
From the article from the AP, some of the rationale used to justify this military buildup:
&#8220;Someone who could fly a plane full of narcotics in could also fly a plane full of terrorists in, could also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Buildup for Vancouver Olympics?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/08/military-buildup-for-vancouver-olympics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/08/military-buildup-for-vancouver-olympics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out Alex&#8217;s new page with links about lots of military activity here in Western Washington state including aerial surveillance, army helicopters and fighter jets over Port Angeles, and more information on the Olympic Security Coordination Center which &#8220;will coordinate the security efforts for over 40 federal, state and local agencies on the U.S. side [...]]]></description>
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