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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; border wars</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>Bordering on paranoid: Inside the U.S/Canada divide near Victoria</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/bordering-on-paranoid-inside-the-u-scanada-divide-near-victoria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Whistle a Halt to Border Patrol Expansion &amp; Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/whistle-a-halt-to-border-patrol-expansion-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/whistle-a-halt-to-border-patrol-expansion-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Border Patrol Finally Addresses Forks City Council</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/border-patrol-finally-addresses-forks-city-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/border-patrol-finally-addresses-forks-city-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>In Tijuana Deported Migrants Struggle to Survive</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/in-tijuana-deported-migrants-struggle-to-survive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/in-tijuana-deported-migrants-struggle-to-survive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=399</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>Border Patrol whistleblower from Port Angeles!!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/07/border-patrol-whistleblower-from-port-angeles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/07/border-patrol-whistleblower-from-port-angeles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=396</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/07/nowhere-near-the-border-patrol-in-forks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Utah: 2 Plead Guilty in Data Breach</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/utah-2-plead-guilty-in-data-breach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/utah-2-plead-guilty-in-data-breach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Body of missing man found in Sol Duc River.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/body-of-missing-man-found-in-sol-duc-river/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/body-of-missing-man-found-in-sol-duc-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Far From Home</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/far-from-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/far-from-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is Border Patrol patrolling so far from the border? AAAComments (2)    By Nina Shapiro Wednesday, Jun 1 2011 Two weeks ago, a traffic stop in Forks—the home of chaste teen vampires and a town closer in proximity to Kent than Canada—illuminated a previously dark corner of the ongoing immigration debate. It all began when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 days to comment &#8211; Environ. Impact Statement on Port Angeles BP Station</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/30-days-to-comment-eviron-impact-statement-on-port-angeles-bp-station/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/30-days-to-comment-eviron-impact-statement-on-port-angeles-bp-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This is a link to the full 127 page impact statement.  Fascinating reading &#8211; especially the last part which shows the actual  signin sheet from that late-notice public meeting and has all the comments submitted by all of us last time around.  They basically say there is minimal impact of a new station.  Also mention future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border law agencies pledge more cooperation with Bellingham residents</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/border-law-agencies-pledge-more-cooperation-with-bellingham-residents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/border-law-agencies-pledge-more-cooperation-with-bellingham-residents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHN STARK / THE BELLINGHAM HERALD BLAINE &#8211; Representatives of federal border agencies pledged to work to improve their relationships with local residents, after hearing complaints and questions from an audience of about 150 people at the school district&#8217;s Performing Arts Center. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to work as hard as I can to address your concerns,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Janet Napolitano urges officials to stop exaggerating violence on U.S. side of border</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/janet-napolitano-urges-officials-to-stop-exaggerating-violence-on-u-s-side-of-border/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/janet-napolitano-urges-officials-to-stop-exaggerating-violence-on-u-s-side-of-border/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security secretary tries to make her case with FBI crime statistics, but public perceptions are hard to change By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau &#8212;&#8211;February 1, 2011 Battling the widespread perception that U.S. border cities have become more dangerous, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday called on public officials to stop exaggerating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/obama-signs-border-bill-to-increase-surveillance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/obama-signs-border-bill-to-increase-surveillance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times  August 14, 2010 President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border. The measure sailed through Congress in little more than a week with broad bipartisan support, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Impact: US-Mexico border isn&#8217;t so dangerous</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/06/ap-impact-us-mexico-border-isnt-so-dangerous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/06/ap-impact-us-mexico-border-isnt-so-dangerous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Associated Press Writer Martha Mendoza,– Thu Jun 3, 11:38 am ET It&#8217;s one of the safest parts of America, and it&#8217;s getting safer. It&#8217;s the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it actually isn&#8217;t so dangerous after all. The top four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New immig. reform proposal based on human rights &amp; a comparison chart</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/new-immig-reform-proposal-based-on-human-rights-a-comparison-chart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/05/new-immig-reform-proposal-based-on-human-rights-a-comparison-chart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 18:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from David Bacon &#8211; April 26, 2010)  see comparison chart following letter Dear friends, A year ago many organizations and individuals in northern California came together to affirm the need for an immigration policy based on human rights. At that meeting, we resolved to work on a strategy for meaningful immigration reform, centered around an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona &#8211; one step closer to a police state!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/arizona-one-step-closer-to-a-police-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona passes tough immigration bill Los Angeles &#8211; Legislators in Arizona have passed what is being described as the toughest immigration law in the country, directing local police to determine the immigration status of non-criminals if there is reasonable suspicion they are in the country illegally, the Arizona Republic newspaper&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Right wing attempting to end &#8220;citizenship by birth&#8221;!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/right-wing-attempting-to-end-citizenship-by-birth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immigration: &#8216;Birth Tourism&#8217; Industry Markets U.S. Citizenship Abroad &#8211; ABC News Some legislators, including U.S. Rep. Gary Miller, R-Calif., have called for revising the Constitution to forbid citizenship by birth alone and thereby end the attraction of birth tourists. Among the foreigners who have given birth here, including international travelers passing through and foreign students [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Need better alternative than Schumer reform bill</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/need-better-alternative-than-schumer-reform-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WE NEED A BETTER ALTERNATIVE By David Bacon     OAKLAND, CA  (3/19/09) &#8211; Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham announced Thursday their plan for immigration reform.  Unfortunately, it is a retread, recycling the same bad ideas that led to the defeat of reform efforts over the last five years.  In some ways, their proposal is [...]]]></description>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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 [...]]]></description>
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