Many states are doing urgent business: jobs, the economy, broken budgets. Arizona’s legislators are trying to give government new powers to strip away individual rights, Read more
Fall Meeting Series – Stop The Checkpoints
Please see the poster linked below for information on a 3-part series of meetings in Port Angeles, WA on the first Saturdays of October, November, and December!
Dicks office aims for meeting with Border Patrol over ‘concerns’ from public
By Paul Gottlieb Aug. 14, 2011 Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Staff members from the North Olympic Peninsula’s congressional delegation plan to meet this
month with the U.S. Border Patrol’s top supervisor for the Blaine sector to discuss a sore point among some Peninsula residents: stepped-up Border Patrol activities in Clallam and Jefferson counties. Read more
Three new BP stations in WA state; Oroville, Colville, Port Angeles
Article published Jul 5, 2011 Peninsula Daily News news sources
OROVILLE — The U.S. Border Patrol will begin work at a $15 million,
22-acre complex outside of Oroville next summer. Read more
Whistle a Halt to Border Patrol Expansion & Fraud
Monday, August 15th from noon till 1:00 pm
Stop The Checkpoints will picket the construction site of a 50 agent Border Patrol Station at the eastern edge of the City of Port Angeles, WA. Read more
Protest of L.A. police checkpoint – stealing cars from immigrants
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This great video is of the Southern California Immigration Coalition’s disruption of a police checkpoint last Saturday night. L.A. Radical Women members participated.
Enjoy, Lois
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30 days to comment – Environ. Impact Statement on Port Angeles BP Station
| This is a link to the full 127 page impact statement. Fascinating reading – especially the last part which shows the actual signin sheet from that late-notice public meeting and has all the comments submitted by all of us last time around. They basically say there is minimal impact of a new station. Also mention future increases in agents, etc.We have thirty days (till March 29, 2011) to comment! | |
| Title: | Draft EA And FONSI For The Proposed Construction, Operation, And Maintenance Of DHS U.S. Customs And Border Protection U.S. Border Patrol Station Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington |
| Date Posted: | 25-Feb-2011 |
| File Size: | 8244513 KB |
| Summary: | This document will be available for one month from 28-Feb-2011. |
Angry Arizona, Again
A bill to chop up the 14th Amendment to deny citizenship to children born in Arizona to undocumented mothers. A bill requiring hospitals to check every patient’s citizenship status, turning doctors and nurses into the immigration police. A bill to deny education to undocumented children by requiring proof of citizenship to enroll in any public or private school. A bill to criminalize driving by illegal immigrants, and to evict them from public housing.
February 26, 2011
Is your state considering an Arizona copycat law?
By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin Fri Jan 21, 11:32 am ET
More than a dozen states are considering following in the footsteps of Arizona and requiring local police officers to check the immigration status of people they suspect may be in the country illegally. Mississippi could soon become the first to do so. Read more
Immigrant vets face deportation despite service
By JULIANA BARBASSA, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO – When Rohan Coombs joined the U.S. Marine Corps, he never thought one day he would be locked up in an immigration detention center and facing deportation from the country he had vowed to defend.
Coombs, 43, born in Jamaica, immigrated to the United States legally as a child with his family. He signed up to serve Read more
Rally Sept. 29th-Labor Unity Across Borders
No, to Border Divisions Based on Discrimination, Harassment, and Militarization ..
Yes, to Border Unity for Peace, Justice, and Workers’ Rights…
On Wednesday, September 29, at 5 pm, a rally will be held at the corner of First and Race streets in Port Angeles. This event is to express solidarity with the massive number of Spanish workers who on this day, and throughout their country, are taking to the streets to demand jobs for all, justice for immigrants, Read more