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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; homeland security</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>Northern border staffing levels draw scrutiny</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/northern-border-staffing-levels-draw-scrutiny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>Dicks office aims for meeting with Border Patrol over ‘concerns&#8217; from public</title>
		<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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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<title>U.S. Attorney Could Put a Stop to Border Patrol&#8217;s Expansionism</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/u-s-attorney-could-put-a-stop-to-border-patrols-expansionism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/bordering-on-paranoid-inside-the-u-scanada-divide-near-victoria/#comments</comments>
		<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>Secure Communities Agreements cancelled, participation still required</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/secure-communities-agreements-cancelled-participation-still-required/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/secure-communities-agreements-cancelled-participation-still-required/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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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>
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		<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>New York state pulls out of &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/new-york-state-pulls-out-of-secure-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>
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		<title>Arizona Lawmakers Push New Round of Immigration Restrictions</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/arizona-lawmakers-push-new-round-of-immigration-restrictions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/arizona-lawmakers-push-new-round-of-immigration-restrictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 23, 2011 By MARC LACEY, NYT PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers are proposing a sweeping package of immigration restrictions that might make the controversial measures the state approved last year, which the Obama administration went to court to block, look mild. Illegal immigrants would be barred from driving in the state, enrolling in school or [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Ellensburg, WA armed federal raids detain 30.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/01/ellensburg-wa-armed-federal-raids-detain-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal raid leads to 30 being taken into custody Federal raid leads to 30 being taken into custody By DAILY RECORD STAFF Daily Record &#124; 15 comments Federal agents early Thursday morning arrested 14 Ellensburg area residents related to criminal charges of manufacture and purchase of counterfeit identity and employment documents, according to a news release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant vets face deportation despite service</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/immigrant-vets-face-deportation-despite-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/immigrant-vets-face-deportation-despite-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JULIANA BARBASSA, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO – When Rohan Coombs joined the U.S. Marine Corps, he never thought one day he would be locked up in an immigration detention center and facing deportation from the country he had vowed to defend. Coombs, 43, born in Jamaica, immigrated to the United States legally as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Patrol has made a 2nd offer for the Eagles lodge building in Port Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/border-patrol-has-made-a-2nd-offer-for-the-eagles-lodge-building-in-port-angeles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/border-patrol-has-made-a-2nd-offer-for-the-eagles-lodge-building-in-port-angeles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eagles considering latest Border Patrol offer  By Paul Gottlieb, Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES &#8212; Eagles club members are expected to meet by Wednesday to consider the Border Patrol&#8217;s second offer to buy the club&#8217;s lodge building for a new North Olympic Peninsula headquarters. Realtor Pili Meyer, representing Eagles Aerie 483 at 110 S. Penn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds say fingerprint and check immigration database or else!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/feds-say-fingerprint-and-check-immigration-database-or-else/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Localities Warned on Fingerprinting By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Local governments cannot opt out of a federal program that checks the fingerprints of people who are arrested against a database to determine if they are illegal immigrants, the head of the immigration enforcement agency said Friday. That is because the agreement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Wall Street Profits from the Criminalization of Immigrants</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/how-wall-street-profits-from-the-criminalization-of-immigrants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and Lobbies for More To Be Locked Up Two Wall Street-backed powerhouses are making fat profits off of the private immigration detention system, and they&#8217;re flexing their muscles in Congress.  This article contains background info, facts, and figures! October 9, 2010  &#124;  by  AlterNet / By Peter Cervantes-Gautschi     Over the past four years roughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell ICE to Stop Secretive Local Police Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/tell-ice-to-stop-secretive-local-police-collaboration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell ICE to Stop Secretive Local Police Collaboration Recently, an immigrant living in California called the police during a domestic violence incident. Instead of receiving the help she needed, she was arrested, fingerprinted and transferred into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody—even though no charges were filed against her. Unfortunately this was not an isolated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another letter opposing new Border Patrol Station</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/another-letter-opposing-new-border-patrol-station/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This explosion in the size and scope of the Border Patrol is extremely troubling.&#8221; Dear Mr. Parsons, We are writing in opposition to the plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to spend $8 million on a major expansion of its Port Angeles facility in order to accommodate 50 agents. The current number is [...]]]></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>Government Documents Reveal Pattern of Dishonesty by I.C.E.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/government-documents-reveal-pattern-of-dishonesty-by-i-c-e/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/government-documents-reveal-pattern-of-dishonesty-by-i-c-e/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; program automatically runs fingerprints through immigration databases for all people arrested and targets them for detention and deportation even if their criminal charges are minor, eventually dismissed, or the result of an unlawful arrest&#8230;.   This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Goes Over the Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/arizona-goes-over-the-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 18, 2010 Editorial &#8211; NYT The Arizona Legislature has just stepped off the deep end of the immigration debate, passing a harsh and mean-spirited bill that would do little to stop illegal immigration. What it would do is lead to more racial profiling, hobble local law enforcement, and open government agencies to frivolous, politically [...]]]></description>
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