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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>Portland, Oregon ICE detention jail stopped!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/portland-oregon-ice-detention-jail-stopped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<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>Bellingham reporter shares concern about secrecy of detentions.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/bellingham-reporter-shares-concern-about-secrecy-of-detentions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/bellingham-reporter-shares-concern-about-secrecy-of-detentions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I share your concern. The idea that the government protects &#8220;privacy&#8221; by allowing people to be arrested and detained in secret is bizarre. But the fact is that the policy here is the same. Detention of people on immigration violations is cloaked in secrecy. When ICE raided a local laundry years ago, we tried [...]]]></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>Obama Taking a Hard Line on Immigrants:  &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; program</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/obama-taking-a-hard-line-on-immigrants-secure-communities-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/obama-taking-a-hard-line-on-immigrants-secure-communities-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JULIA PRESTON and KIRK SEMPLE              Published: February 17, 2011 After months of internal wrangling and confusion over an ambitious nationwide program allowing state and local police agencies to identify immigrants with criminal records, Obama administration immigration officials have decided to take a hard line against communities that try to delay or cancel their participation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellensburg, WA residents respond to immigration raids</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/ellensburg-wa-residents-respond-to-immigration-raids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/ellensburg-wa-residents-respond-to-immigration-raids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[7:59 PM, Jan. 21, 2011  &#124;  SHANNON DININNY  Associated Press ELLENSBURG, Wash. — More than 200 people turned out to a church in a central Washington college town Friday to discuss a series of immigration raids that resulted in more than two dozen arrests and left relatives scrambling to care for the children left behind. Those attending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration Raid Has Ripple Effect on Ellensburg Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/immigration-raid-has-ripple-effect-on-ellensburg-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/immigration-raid-has-ripple-effect-on-ellensburg-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Keegan Hamilton, Mon., Jan. 24 2011 @ 1:01PM ​The residents of a mobile home park on the outskirts of Ellensburg received a rude awakening early last Thursday morning. A police helicopter hovered above their homes, shining a searchlight through their windows. Squad cars blocked the entrance and exit to the community, which is home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans push for more raids</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/republicans-push-for-more-raids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/republicans-push-for-more-raids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau   -  January 27, 2011 Deportations of illegal immigrants have reached new heights for two years running under President Obama, statistics show, but Republicans say they&#8217;ll use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status. Republican lawmakers called on the Obama [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/01/ellensburg-wa-armed-federal-raids-detain-30/#comments</comments>
		<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>Private Prison Profits behind Arizona&#8217;s SB1070</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/private-prison-profits-behind-arizonas-sb1070/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/private-prison-profits-behind-arizonas-sb1070/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 28, 2010 Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal. Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch. &#8220;The gentleman that&#8217;s the main thrust of this thing has a huge turquoise ring on his finger,&#8221; Nichols said. &#8220;He&#8217;s a [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/how-wall-street-profits-from-the-criminalization-of-immigrants/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/tell-ice-to-stop-secretive-local-police-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<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>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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		<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>ANOTHER IMMIGRATION POLICY IS POSSIBLE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Bacon Truthout Report http://www.truth-out.org/another-immigration-policy-is-possible60995         Thousands of leftwing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner &#8220;Another World is Possible!&#8221;  Among them hundreds added a new subtext:  &#8220;Another Immigration Policy is Possible!&#8221;         This theme was especially popular among grassroots organizations in immigrant communities.  [...]]]></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 Report: Immigration enforcement harms workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009 Report: Immigration enforcement harms workers A comprehensive report issued today by the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work and the National Employment Law Project finds that the federal government’s immigration enforcement in recent years &#8212; including a heavy reliance on raids and often inadequately trained enforcement agents &#8212; has severely undermined efforts [...]]]></description>
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