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. 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
Border Patrol Finally Addresses Forks City Council
There’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. That changed last night, when two Border Patrol agents came to speak to the City Council. Read more
Portland, Oregon ICE detention jail stopped!
Secure Communities Agreements cancelled, participation still required
Updated: 8/5/11 04:25 PM ET Huffington Post
WASHINGTON –
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. Read more
In Tijuana Deported Migrants Struggle to Survive
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — After 15 years of
installing marble in homes in Escondido, California, Porfirio Perez was caught
without a driver’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. He is among hundreds of deportees who are stuck in Tijuana, which sits across from San Diego, California. Some don’t have
the money for a bus trip home. Some are waiting Read more
Border Patrol whistleblower from Port Angeles!!
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.” Read more
Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks
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 around the world for its ability to stay fresh for weeks. It
grows like a weed on the mountainsides around Forks, a tiny town on the Olympic
Peninsula Read more
Utah: 2 Plead Guilty in Data Breach
June 6, 2011
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Body of missing man found in Sol Duc River.
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 Sunday night. Read more
New York state pulls out of “Secure Communities”
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 office said there was “mounting evidence” that the program, called Secure Communities, had not only failed to meet its goal of deporting the most serious immigrant criminals but was also undermining law enforcement and compromising public safety. Read more