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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&#8217;s 1st new strategy in 8 years!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/05/border-patrols-1st-new-strategy-in-8-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its first national strategy in eight years, a period in which the number of agents more than doubled and apprehensions of people entering illegally from Mexico dropped to a 40-year low. The Border Patrol previously relied on a strategy that blanketed heavily trafficked corridors for illegal immigrants with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Patrol: Obama Plan won&#8217;t likely affect operations</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/05/517/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article published Apr 3, 2012 By Paul Gottlieb Peninsula Daily News The Obama administration’s temporary suspension of the immigration court dockets for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in four cities, including Seattle, does not go far enough in addressing flaws in the system, opponents of the Border Patrol’s stepped up presence in Clallam and Jefferson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rulings In Two Countries Affirm Immigrant Workers’ Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/05/rulings-in-two-countries-affirm-immigrant-workers%e2%80%99-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 16:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[// John See of AFT’s Public Affairs Department reports on two important rulings that protect the rights of immigrant workers. Teachers across the globe are fighting back against abuse and exploitation. With the assistance of AFT and partner unions in the Philippines, the rights of teachers who came to the United States on temporary visas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forks resident figures in rights group’s complaint</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/05/forks-resident-figures-in-rights-group%e2%80%99s-complaint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Paul Gottlieb, Peninsula Daily News, May 6, 2012 A Forks woman who was with Benjamin Roldan Salinas on May 14, 2011, before his fatal flight from Border Patrol agents was among six people whose interactions with the Border Patrol were cited in a complaint filed last week with the federal government. Roldan Salinas’ body [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group protests use of Border Patrol as interpreters for local law enforcement</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/05/group-protests-use-of-order-patrol-as-interpreters-for-local-law-enforcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/05/group-protests-use-of-order-patrol-as-interpreters-for-local-law-enforcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Manuel Valdes The Associated Press  Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA 5/6/12 It has become a common practice among local law enforcement agencies in many counties around Washington state: If a person is pulled over and can only speak Spanish, call the U.S. Border Patrol. Except, immigrant right advocates argue, Border Patrol agents don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant Pacific Steel workers march to protest firings</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/05/immigrant-pacific-steel-workers-march-to-protest-firings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/05/immigrant-pacific-steel-workers-march-to-protest-firings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from &#8220;Z&#8221; Magazine Two hundred immigrant workers and hundreds of supporters marched through downtown Berkeley on February 17, 2012, protesting their firing from Pacific Steel Castings. The company is one of the city’s biggest employers and the largest steel foundry west of the Mississippi River . Starting at City Hall, they walked for an hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking News: NWIRP and ACLU File Class Action Lawsuit Against Border</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/breaking-news-nwirp-and-aclu-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-border/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/breaking-news-nwirp-and-aclu-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-border/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning (April 26,2012) Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) and the ACLU of Washington, with cooperating firm Perkins Coie LLP, filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the U.S. Border Patrol&#8217;s practice of stopping vehicles and interrogating people (on the Olympic Peninsula) without legal justification. For years we&#8217;ve heard about repeated instances of individuals being pulled over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief History of Checkpoints: and what to do about them</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/a-brief-history-of-checkpoints-and-what-to-do-about-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This scholarly paper was sent to us by Patrick Adams.  It is about all kinds of traffic checkpoints and has many references attached &#8211; court decisions, etc.  Thank you Patrick (David) Adams! Imagine driving to the local school to pick up your kids. It’s three o’clock in the afternoon, and the day is unseasonably nice. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young men in Mexico say the US no longer offers them a better future</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/young-men-in-mexico-say-the-us-no-longer-offers-them-a-better-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/young-men-in-mexico-say-the-us-no-longer-offers-them-a-better-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seismic shifts in immigration and demographics leave towns full of young men who once would have dreamed of the US.  Potential migrants say the US border crossing is not itself a dissuading factor, but racial discrimination and hostility are. Edward Helmore in Jalisco, Mexico, Wednesday 25 April 2012 10.31 EDT . Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting Indigenous Autonomy and  Immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/connecting-indigenous-autonomy-and-immigration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/connecting-indigenous-autonomy-and-immigration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of the direction and presumed legitimacy of U.S. immigration law, there are much deeper traditions that Native American and MesoAmerican peoples have practiced and are starting to embrace once again as they negotiate their experience of trans-border citizenship, regardless of the state of exception that seeks to suspend the rule of law and declare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexicans Seeking Refuge Join Forces, Speak Out</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/mexicans-seeking-refuge-join-forces-speak-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/mexicans-seeking-refuge-join-forces-speak-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One member of Mexicans in Exile is Cipriana Jurado, a human-rights activist who opposes President Felipe Calderón’s deployment of the military to Chihuahua. She was approached by a stranger who said that if she continued her protests, her name would be added to the list of activists gunned down in the border state. TEXAS TRIBUNE: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deportation Video Wins White House Contest, But Disappears From Winners List</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/deportation-video-wins-white-house-contest-but-disappears-from-winners-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/deportation-video-wins-white-house-contest-but-disappears-from-winners-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by        Jorge Rivas, Wednesday, April 11 2012,  5:01 PM EST 872 In November 2011, the White House launched the “What’s Your Story” video challenge, asking the AAPI community to submit videos about the “issues that matter the most” to them. The Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders office received over 200 submissions and narrowed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kidney donation, illegal immigration, finances</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/kidney-donation-illegal-immigration-finances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, April 9, 2012 This story has it all, illness, compassion, bureaucracy, money, an illegal immigrant down on his luck and legal ones who have thrived&#8230; From Brother to Brother, a Kidney, and a Life &#8220;Angel, the father of two American-born children, is an illegal immigrant. And a maze of conflicting health care and immigration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican-American Immigration: At &#8220;Net Zero&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/mexican-american-immigration-at-net-zero/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/mexican-american-immigration-at-net-zero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Doherty &#124; April 10, 2012 The Christian Science Monitor visits the Mexican village of Tamaula, and find things looking better &#8212; and finds a Mexico where people are no longer running to the U.S. of A for a living. Details: Since the Monitor last visited here in 2007, a major demographic shift has transformed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secure Communities Program Makes Communities Less Secure</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/secure-communities-program-makes-communities-less-secure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, the ACLU of Washington joined a number of allies in the immigrant rights community, including El Comite Pro-Reforma Migratoria and CASA Latina, at a press conference in opposition to the ever-expanding Secure Communities (S Comm) program.  The press conference was a response to the federal government&#8217;s move last week, with very little fanfare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secure Communities activated in WA State in spite of local refusals</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/secure-communities-activated-in-wa-state-in-spite-of-local-refusals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/secure-communities-activated-in-wa-state-in-spite-of-local-refusals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; NWIRP &#8211; Jorge Baron, April 3, 2012 We were deeply disappointed to learn last week that the controversial Secure Communities program will be activated throughout Washington starting today. There has been no public announcement, of course, but this is par for the course for this flawed program that has been shrouded in secrecy and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Patrol &#8211; Obama plan won&#8217;t affect operations</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/border-patrol-obama-plan-wont-affect-operations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/border-patrol-obama-plan-wont-affect-operations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article published Apr 3, 2012 By Paul Gottlieb , Peninsula Daily News The Obama administration’s temporary suspension of the immigration court dockets for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in four cities, including Seattle, does not go far enough in addressing flaws in the system, opponents of the Border Patrol’s stepped up presence in Clallam and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finish Delayed on new Port Angeles Border Patrol HQ</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/finish-delayed-on-new-port-angeles-border-patrol-hq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article published Apr 3, 2012 By Paul Gottlieb,Peninsula Daily News  PORT ANGELES — The completion of the Border Patrol&#8217;s new $5.7 million headquarters has been delayed by more than a month to the end of May, with a move-in date now slated for the end of June. “April 15 was an estimate on a time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>43 arrested in Washington immigration raids</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/43-arrested-in-washington-immigration-raids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lois&#8217;s NOTE:  More than half were only in the country without documents &#8211; had not committed crimes! KING5.com Posted on April 2, 2012 Updated today at 10:15 AM SEATTLE – Immigrations enforcement officers have arrested 43 people in Washington state as part of a nationwide crackdown on convicted criminal aliens and immigration fugitives. Immigration and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mississippi churches, farmers oppose immigration enforcement bill</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2012/04/mississippi-churches-farmers-oppose-immigration-enforcement-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add religious leaders to the growing list of groups voicing their opposition to an immigration-enforcement bill being considered by the state Legislature. Representatives from Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist groups expressed their concerns about House Bill 488 on Thursday at the state Capitol. &#8220;This is not the spirit, nor the tone of the [...]]]></description>
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