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		<title>Immigration raid almost destroys Postville, Iowa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years after immigration raid, Iowa town feels poorer and less stable By Liz Goodwin National Affairs Reporter POSTVILLE, Iowa—A group of Jewish boys in yarmulkes and winter coats walked past the &#8220;Taste of Mexico&#8221; restaurant on Lawler Street last week on their way home from school. Minutes later, a Somali man wearing a keffiyeh scarf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/12/immigration-raid-almost-destroys-postville-iowa/</link>
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		<title>Fall Meeting Series &#8211; Stop The Checkpoints</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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! Forum 1 Oct 2011 flyer]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/fall-meeting-series-stop-the-checkpoints/</link>
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		<title>Report: Border Patrol Abuses on the Rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday 24 September 2011 by: Valeria Fernández, New America Media &#124; Report Phoenix, Ariz. &#8211; The number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped, but reports of abuses against immigrants are on the rise. Those are the findings of a new report released by the Arizona humanitarian aid organization No More [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/report-border-patrol-abuses-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<title>Northern border staffing levels draw scrutiny</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the greatly stepped-up presence of Border Patrol agents on the nation&#8217;s northern border is raising questions — especially about Port Angeles, where the number of agents has increased tenfold and one agent has testified that there&#8217;s too little to do. By Rob Hotakainen and Adam Sege McClatchy Newspapers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/northern-border-staffing-levels-draw-scrutiny/</link>
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		<title>Border Patrol arrest at farmers&#8217; market stuns bystanders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article published Sep 4, 2011 Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Bystanders said they were shocked by the arrest of a vendor by the Border Patrol on Saturday. Sequim resident and Korean national Hung Han was detained at about 2:30 p.m. while helping his parents pack up their Port Angeles Farmers Market produce stand at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/border-patrol-arrest-at-farmers-market-stuns-bystanders/</link>
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		<title>Editorial(Port Townsend Leader): New look at Border Patrol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[8/17/2011 6:00:00 AM The U.S. Border Patrol has a little explaining to do to the communities of the North Olympic Peninsula. We&#8217;re glad to see its representatives making the rounds to Clallam County business groups and hope to see them here too.The subject: Why do we need such a dramatic expansion of the Border Patrol [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/editorialport-townsend-leader-new-look-at-border-patrol/</link>
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		<title>Dicks office aims for meeting with Border Patrol over ‘concerns&#8217; from public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Gottlieb  Aug. 14, 2011    Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Staff members from the North Olympic Peninsula&#8217;s congressional delegation plan to meet this month with the U.S. Border Patrol&#8217;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. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/dicks-office-aims-for-meeting-with-border-patrol-over-%e2%80%98concerns-from-public-2/</link>
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		<title>U.S. Attorney Could Put a Stop to Border Patrol&#8217;s Expansionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nina ShapiroMon., Aug. 15 2011 at 12:26 PM Comments (2) ​After a month of intense media scrutiny on the Border Patrol&#8217;s expansionist and legally questionable activities, U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks&#8217; office says it will meet with the agency&#8217;s regional chief later this month. How pointed the Congressional staffers will be in their discussions isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/u-s-attorney-could-put-a-stop-to-border-patrols-expansionism/</link>
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		<title>Bordering on paranoid: Inside the U.S/Canada divide near Victoria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Post (a Canadian national newspaper) interviewed Stop The Checkpoints folks Alex, Jim and Libby in Port Townsend; Stop The Checkpoints coordinator, Lois Danks in Port Angeles;  and Forks Human Rights Group members for the following article: Brian Hutchinson &#124;  Aug 12, 2011 9:33 PM ET PORT ANGELES, Washington • Christian Sanchez thought he was one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/bordering-on-paranoid-inside-the-u-scanada-divide-near-victoria/</link>
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		<title>Three new BP stations in WA state; Oroville, Colville, Port Angeles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. Agents and support staff work out of a small office in downtown Oroville, near where U.S. Highway 97 ends at the Canadian border in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/three-new-bp-stations-in-wa-state-oroville-colville-port-angeles/</link>
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		<title>Whistle a Halt to Border Patrol Expansion &amp; Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.  Recent whistleblower information verifies what we have suspected &#8211; the number of agents has risen from 4 to 40 in the last few years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/whistle-a-halt-to-border-patrol-expansion-fraud/</link>
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		<title>Border Patrol Finally Addresses Forks City Council</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nina ShapiroTue., Aug. 9 2011 at 1:29 PM ​There&#8217;s been a lot written about Border Patrol activity in the unlikely locale of Forks, Wash., including a recent SW cover story, but most of it has come from news outlets outside the town made famous by Twilight. In Forks itself, an eerie silence has reigned. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/border-patrol-finally-addresses-forks-city-council/</link>
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		<title>Portland, Oregon ICE detention jail stopped!</title>
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		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/portland-oregon-ice-detention-jail-stopped/</link>
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		<title>Secure Communities Agreements cancelled, participation still required</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated: 8/5/11 04:25 PM ET  Huffington Post WASHINGTON &#8211; Activists are outraged over a Friday announcement from the Department of Homeland Security that it will move ahead with its controversial Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, even if states do not agree to participate. &#8220;Today’s announcement confirms [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]’s status as a rogue agency,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/secure-communities-agreements-cancelled-participation-still-required/</link>
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		<title>In Tijuana Deported Migrants Struggle to Survive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — After 15 years of installing marble in homes in Escondido, California, Porfirio Perez was caught without a driver&#8217;s license during a February traffic stop and deported.  Now the 42-year-old just tries to survive in this sprawling industrial border city, 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) from his birthplace of Puebla in central Mexico.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/in-tijuana-deported-migrants-struggle-to-survive/</link>
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		<title>Border Patrol whistleblower from Port Angeles!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Border Patrol whistleblower pays price for refusing unearned overtime pay By Joe Davidson, Published: July 28   Washington Post There is little work to do at the Port Angeles, Wash., station, where he is assigned, he said. He calls it a “black hole” where agents have “no purpose, no mission.” During a period when some in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/07/border-patrol-whistleblower-from-port-angeles/</link>
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		<title>Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How a flushgovernment agency found trouble in the coastal home of Twilight. By NinaShapiro pubished: July 27, 2011 One day earlier this May, Benjamin Roldan Salinas and Crisanta Ramos decided to explore a new area of the Olympic National Forest. The Hispanic couple was looking for salal, a green, oval-leafed plant that is prized by florists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/07/nowhere-near-the-border-patrol-in-forks/</link>
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		<title>Utah: 2 Plead Guilty in Data Breach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 6, 2011 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two former state workers pleaded guilty Monday to their roles in the release of a list of 1,300 names of people suspected of being in the country illegally. Teresa Bassett, 59, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of computer crimes, but maintained her innocence during a hearing in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/utah-2-plead-guilty-in-data-breach/</link>
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		<title>Body of missing man found in Sol Duc River.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Article published Jun 6, 2011 By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News FORKS — The body of Benjamin Roldan Salinas, the West End man who had been missing since May 14 after running from a highway traffic stop, was found in the Sol Duc River three miles east of Sappho, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office confirmed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/body-of-missing-man-found-in-sol-duc-river/</link>
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		<title>New York state pulls out of &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By KIRK SEMPLE Published: June 1, 2011 , New York Times Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Wednesday that he was suspending New York’s participation in a federal immigration enforcement plan that has drawn fire from immigrant advocates, civil liberties lawyers and elected officials in the state and around the country. A statement from Mr. Cuomo’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/new-york-state-pulls-out-of-secure-communities/</link>
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