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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; immigration reform</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>Report: Border Patrol Abuses on the Rise</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/report-border-patrol-abuses-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday 24 September 2011 by: Valeria Fernández, New America Media &#124; Report Phoenix, Ariz. &#8211; The number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped, but reports of abuses against immigrants are on the rise. Those are the findings of a new report released by the Arizona humanitarian aid organization No More [...]]]></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>Border Patrol arrest at farmers&#8217; market stuns bystanders</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/border-patrol-arrest-at-farmers-market-stuns-bystanders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article published Sep 4, 2011 Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Bystanders said they were shocked by the arrest of a vendor by the Border Patrol on Saturday. Sequim resident and Korean national Hung Han was detained at about 2:30 p.m. while helping his parents pack up their Port Angeles Farmers Market produce stand at [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/u-s-attorney-could-put-a-stop-to-border-patrols-expansionism/#comments</comments>
		<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>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>
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		<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>
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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>Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/07/nowhere-near-the-border-patrol-in-forks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/07/nowhere-near-the-border-patrol-in-forks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/new-york-state-pulls-out-of-secure-communities/#comments</comments>
		<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>Far From Home</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/far-from-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Rally against new Border Patrol Station in Port Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/05/rally-against-new-border-patrol-station-in-port-angeles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/05/rally-against-new-border-patrol-station-in-port-angeles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 01:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Dozens flocked to a Port Angeles rally against the expansion of the Border Patrol headquarters at the site of the planned building renovation on Sunday. Thirty-five protesters held signs in support of immigrants&#8217; rights and against defense spending during the two-hour May Day Rally. They stood [...]]]></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>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>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>Republicans push for more raids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Is your state considering an Arizona copycat law?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/01/is-your-state-considering-an-arizona-copycat-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin Fri Jan 21, 11:32 am ET More than a dozen states are considering following in the footsteps of Arizona and requiring local police officers to check the immigration status of people they suspect may be in the country illegally. Mississippi could soon become the first to do so. The state Senate handily passed 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>
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		<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>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>Rally Sept. 29th-Labor Unity Across Borders</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/09/rally-sept-29th-labor-unity-across-borders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, to Border Divisions Based on Discrimination, Harassment, and Militarization .. Yes, to Border Unity for Peace, Justice, and Workers&#8217; Rights&#8230; On Wednesday, September 29, at 5 pm, a rally will be held at the corner of First and Race streets in Port Angeles. This event is to express solidarity with the massive number of [...]]]></description>
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