Northern border staffing levels draw scrutiny
Ten years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the greatly stepped-up presence of Border Patrol agents on the nation’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’s too little to do. Read more
Border Patrol arrest at farmers’ market stuns bystanders
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 The Gateway transit center in downtown. Read more
Editorial(Port Townsend Leader): New look at Border Patrol
| 8/17/2011 6:00:00 AM |
| The U.S. Border Patrol has a little explaining to do to the communities of the North Olympic Peninsula. We’re glad to see its representatives making the rounds to Clallam County business groups and hope to see them here too.The subject: Why do we need such a dramatic expansion of the Border Patrol mission in this corner of Washington state? Read more |
Dicks office aims for meeting with Border Patrol over ‘concerns’ from public
By Paul Gottlieb Aug. 14, 2011 Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Staff members from the North Olympic Peninsula’s congressional delegation plan to meet this
month with the U.S. Border Patrol’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. Read more
U.S. Attorney Could Put a Stop to Border Patrol’s Expansionism
Bordering on paranoid: Inside the U.S/Canada divide near Victoria
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 | Aug 12, 2011 9:33 PM ET
PORT ANGELES, Washington • Christian Sanchez thought he was one of the good guys, a
veteran U.S. border patrol agent stopping foreign criminals and terrorists from
sneaking onto American soil. Two years ago, he accepted a transfer from
southern California to this small blue-collar city. “The Port Angeles station
was described as one of the exciting new places to be,” he recalls.
Not so, he discovered. Port Angeles is no San Diego, his former bailiwick. Perched
on the edge of the remote Olympic Peninsula, on the cold Strait of Juan de
Fuca, its closest neighbour is Victoria, B.C., not widely known as a terrorism
launchpad. Marijuana smugglers occasionally drift across the strait, but the
U.S. Coast Guard takes care of them. Mr. Sanchez found himself with little to
do but drive up and down the peninsula in his border patrol vehicle, for 10
hours at a time, “wasting gasoline” and blowing taxpayers’ dollars. Read more
Three new BP stations in WA state; Oroville, Colville, Port Angeles
Article published Jul 5, 2011 Peninsula Daily News news sources
OROVILLE — The U.S. Border Patrol will begin work at a $15 million,
22-acre complex outside of Oroville next summer. Read more
Whistle a Halt to Border Patrol Expansion & Fraud
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. Read more
Border Patrol Finally Addresses Forks City Council
Border Patrol whistleblower from Port Angeles!!
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.” Read more