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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>Obama signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/obama-signs-border-bill-to-increase-surveillance/</link>
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		<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, demonstrating the [...]]]></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 big cities in [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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 alternative to the kind of [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/arizona-one-step-closer-to-a-police-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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;
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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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/right-wing-attempting-to-end-citizenship-by-birth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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 studying at [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/increased-border-enforcement-vs-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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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
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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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/need-better-alternative-than-schumer-reform-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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 even worse. 
       [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/03/afl-cio-says-broken-immig-system-benefits-corporations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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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 rally, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Showings-Dec. 1st and 5th</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/video-showings-dec-1st-and-5th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/11/video-showings-dec-1st-and-5th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, December 1st at 6:30 pm, Sequim Library, 630 N Sequim Ave. 
Saturday, December 5th at 2:00 pm, Port Angeles Library, 2210 S Peabody St.
  “Farmingville” documentary showing in Sequim and Port Angeles 
 The Stop the Checkpoints Committee will hold two showings of “Farmingville”, a documentary which puts a human face on the current debate around “guest [...]]]></description>
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