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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; Lois</title>
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	<description>Defending civil liberties &#38; immigrant workers on the Olympic Peninsula of WA. Say NO to a police state &#38; racial profiling!</description>
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		<title>Another letter opposing new Border Patrol Station</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/another-letter-opposing-new-border-patrol-station/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/another-letter-opposing-new-border-patrol-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This explosion in the size and scope of the Border Patrol is extremely troubling.&#8221;
Dear Mr. Parsons,
We are writing in opposition to the plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to spend $8 million on a major expansion of its Port Angeles facility in order to accommodate 50 agents. The current number is 25, up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border patrol proposal draws support, criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/border-patrol-proposal-draws-support-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/border-patrol-proposal-draws-support-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KONP Radio News &#8211; August 20th, 2010 &#8211; 6:09 am
(Port Angeles) &#8212; A proposal that would move the local border patrol headquarters into what is now the Eagles Building has drawn support and ire in the community.
Earlier this week members of &#8220;Stop the Checkpoints&#8221; a group critical of the U-S Border Patrol took picket signs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Both sides of Border Patrol controversy demonstrate on street</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/both-sides-of-border-patrol-controversy-demonstrate-on-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/both-sides-of-border-patrol-controversy-demonstrate-on-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article published Aug 19, 2010
By Tom Callis
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES &#8212; Opponents of expanding the Border Patrol&#8217;s presence on the North Olympic Peninsula came out this week, as they did two years before, to say no to the placement of more federal agents in Clallam and Jefferson counties.

But this time just as many people, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters against a new Border Patrol station in Port Angeles, WA</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/letters-against-a-new-border-patrol-station-in-port-angeles-wa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/letters-against-a-new-border-patrol-station-in-port-angeles-wa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Border Patrol station]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Parsons,
I&#8217;m worried that our country is becoming too militarized.   Aside from all the money the US military industrial complex is spending on wars in foreign countries, taking away from sorely needed basic human services like health care, education, jobs and food needed here at home.  Therefore, I resent the encroachment of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Arizona Went, So Goes Virginia</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/as-arizona-went-so-goes-virginia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/as-arizona-went-so-goes-virginia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arizona anti-immigrant law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 14, 2010
In Virginia — and in other states like Florida, where officials and candidates have been aping Arizona — creating a local dragnet for illegal immigrants is a popular slogan. It is not a solution.

Virginia has long had localized tensions over immigration: places like Prince William County and towns like Herndon where influxes of day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Documents Reveal Pattern of Dishonesty by I.C.E.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/government-documents-reveal-pattern-of-dishonesty-by-i-c-e/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/government-documents-reveal-pattern-of-dishonesty-by-i-c-e/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; program automatically runs fingerprints through immigration databases for all people arrested and targets them for detention and deportation even if their criminal charges are minor, eventually dismissed, or the result of an unlawful arrest&#8230;. 
 This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON) and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14th Amendment birthright debate is just politics not constitutional law issue.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/14th-amendment-birthright-debate-is-just-politics-not-constitutional-law-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/14th-amendment-birthright-debate-is-just-politics-not-constitutional-law-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Victor Goode  Thursday, August 12 2010, ColorLines
Republican leaders have spent the last couple of weeks reigniting a 140-year-old constitutional debate: Whether the 14th Amendment should grant citizenship to everyone born inside United States territory. South Carolina’s Sen. Lindsay Graham, who was once considered an immigration ally for Democrats, demanded Senate hearings on the matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Immigrant Zealot Becomes GOP&#8217;s Colorado Senate Nominee</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/anti-immigrant-zealot-becomes-gops-colorado-senate-nominee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/anti-immigrant-zealot-becomes-gops-colorado-senate-nominee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ari Berman &#124; August 11, 2010  &#124; The Nation
At dawn on December 12, 2006, the holiday of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, a heavily armed fleet of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed the JBS Swift Greeley Beef Plant, the largest employer in the sleepy city of Greeley, Colorado. They arrived in riot gear, arresting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increased Border Enforcement vs. Environment?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/increased-border-enforcement-vs-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/increased-border-enforcement-vs-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOP: Border Patrol should control federal lands
A group of House Republicans say Border Patrol agents should be granted direct control over U.S. borders, even on federal lands managed by other agencies.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011604810_apusbordersafety.html
]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Make It Real! Planning meeting-Apr. 12</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/lets-make-it-real-planning-meeting-apr-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/lets-make-it-real-planning-meeting-apr-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the April 3rd meeting of Stop The Checkpoints it was decided to hold a Planning Meeting on Monday, April 12th at 4:00 pm at the Port Angeles Library (their week-long furlough days are over now).
 
Planning will take place for actions on May 1st to promote real immigration reform based on human rights and workers&#8217; rights instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Officers not trained as immigration enforcers</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/local-officers-not-trained-as-immigration-enforcers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/local-officers-not-trained-as-immigration-enforcers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S.: Report Faults Training of Local Officers in Immigration
Enforcement Program
By JULIA PRESTON
Local law enforcement officials do not consistently protect
immigrants&#8217; civil rights, a study finds.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/us/03immig.html?emc=tnt&#38;tntemail1=y
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		<title>Opinion: Too Broken To Fix</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/opinion-too-broken-to-fix/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/opinion-too-broken-to-fix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times &#8211; April 9, 2010 4:17 AM
Opinion: Too Broken to Fix
A program that outsources immigration enforcement also
undermines public safety. The Department of Homeland
Security must end it.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/opinion/09fri3.html?emc=tnt&#38;tntemail1=y
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		<title>AFL-CIO says Broken Immig. System benefits corporations</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/afl-cio-says-broken-immig-system-benefits-corporations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/afl-cio-says-broken-immig-system-benefits-corporations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The broken system is benefiting the very same corporate giants who destroyed our economy. It is allowing those corporations to exploit workers by&#8230;
Some 200,000 people turned out in Washington, D.C., Sunday for a massive rally in support of immigration reform. Among the speakers, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker thanked the organizers of the rally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funding cut for Border Fence</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/funding-cut-for-border-fence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/funding-cut-for-border-fence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD     Published: March 16, 2010




Citing a plague of “cost overruns and missed deadlines,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she would cut millions of dollars intended for a high-tech “virtual fence” along the Mexican border that has produced little more than headaches for the federal government.




Ms. Napolitano said her department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; lets ICE use local police in secret!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/secure-communities-lets-ice-use-local-police-in-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/secure-communities-lets-ice-use-local-police-in-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Homeland Security Targets &#8220;Criminal Aliens&#8221;
Thursday 18 February 2010
by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t &#124; Report

(Photo: r3v &#124;&#124; cls)

A little-known program run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning &#8220;as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the already overburdened&#8221; detention and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France: 6,000 strike for work permits</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/france-6000-strike-for-work-permits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/france-6000-strike-for-work-permits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film industry seeks to highlight plight of illegal workers 2/17/2010  A few days before French regional elections, a screenwriters’ collective has launched a movement to fight for legal status for those working in the country without the proper papers. By Priscille LAFITTE (text)
 A screenwriters guild in France has launched a movement demanding that many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading List on history of guest worker laws in U.S.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/reading-list-on-history-of-guest-worker-laws-in-u-s/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/reading-list-on-history-of-guest-worker-laws-in-u-s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resources used for “History of guest workers laws in the U.S”
Educational talk by Lois Danks at Stop The Checkpoints meeting on Jan. 9, 2010 in Sequim, WA
Illegal People: How globalization creates migration and criminalizes immigrants, by David Bacon, Beacon Press, Boston, 2008
They Take Our Jobs and 20 other Myths about Immigration, by Aviva Chomsky, Beacon Press, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current Immigration Reform Legislation &#8211; links to info</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resources on Current Legislation in 111th Congress                     Comprehensive Immigration Reform Legislation
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP Act), H.R. 4321, creates an earned legalization program for undocumented immigrants; includes AgJOBS and DREAM Act, provides resources for the integration of immigrants; promotes family unity and addresses backlogs; creates a labor commission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feb. 13, 2010 Meeting in Forks, WA</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/feb-13-2010-meeting-in-forks-wa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Hello all!
Since we hear reports of stepped up detention activity by plainclothes agents (I.C.E.? or Border Patrol?) in the Forks area,
 
the Stop The Checkpoints&#8217; February meeting will be in Forks at 2:00 pm on Saturday, Feb. 13th . 
 
We&#8217;ll gather at Cafe Paix: A Work in Progress at 71 North Forks Avenue &#8211;  It&#8217;s only a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO immig. reform helps labor</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/136/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report shows that comprehensive immigration reform would help American workers and the U.S. economy. Reform that offers a path to citizenship for currently unauthorized workers and enforces workers' rights would raise the "wage floor" for the entire U.S. economy and increase the total gross domestic product (GDP) by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade, the report says.]]></description>
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