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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>Border patrol proposal draws support, criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/border-patrol-proposal-draws-support-criticism/</link>
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		<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 [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Current Immigration Reform Legislation &#8211; links to info</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/current-immigration-reform-legislation-links-to-info/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[H.R. 4321]]></category>
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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 [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/feb-13-2010-meeting-in-forks-wa/#comments</comments>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFL-CIO immig. reform helps labor</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/136/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/01/136/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>New Report Documents Trail of Human Rights Violations Against Immigrants</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/new-report-documents-trail-of-human-rights-violations-against-immigrants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/new-report-documents-trail-of-human-rights-violations-against-immigrants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guilty by Immigration Status describes how DHS, along with other police, public officials and agencies, routinely trumped the civil rights and constitutional protections of a person in order to question, detain and/or jail them solely based on their actual or perceived immigration status. The report also shows that such DHS detentions are taking place in record numbers, along with the relentless militarizing and policing of the immigrant and border communities.]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-immigration forces prep for Town Halls on reform?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/105/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOWNHALLS ON IMMIGRATION REFORM?

Some anti-illegal immigration activists have been watching the heated town halls on health care reform and see the future.

"I think that what you're seeing at the health care town halls may be a template for the immigration debate," said Tara Setmayer, who handles immigration policy for Congressman Dana Rohrabacher. "I think it may be a template for the grassroots advocates who have been so involved and vocal in the past."

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		<title>Town Cut in Half by Border Gates</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/10/77-gates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/10/77-gates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US: Towns at Vermont-Quebec Border Installing Security Gates By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Border authorities say the five-foot-tall steel gates across two residential streets are necessary to stem smuggling of and crossings by illegal immigrants. Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/us/04border.html?emc=tnt&#38;tntemail1=y For posterity: LINE, Vt. (AP) — For decades, Derby Line, Vt., and Stanstead, Quebec, have functioned as one [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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 [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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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