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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; police state</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>
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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>Editorial(Port Townsend Leader): New look at Border Patrol</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/editorialport-townsend-leader-new-look-at-border-patrol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></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>
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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>Three new BP stations in WA state; Oroville, Colville, Port Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/three-new-bp-stations-in-wa-state-oroville-colville-port-angeles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/three-new-bp-stations-in-wa-state-oroville-colville-port-angeles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Agents and support staff work out of a small office in downtown Oroville, near where U.S. Highway 97 ends at the Canadian border in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whistle a Halt to Border Patrol Expansion &amp; Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/whistle-a-halt-to-border-patrol-expansion-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.  Recent whistleblower information verifies what we have suspected &#8211; the number of agents has risen from 4 to 40 in the last few years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Patrol Finally Addresses Forks City Council</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/border-patrol-finally-addresses-forks-city-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/border-patrol-finally-addresses-forks-city-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nina ShapiroTue., Aug. 9 2011 at 1:29 PM ​There&#8217;s been a lot written about Border Patrol activity in the unlikely locale of Forks, Wash., including a recent SW cover story, but most of it has come from news outlets outside the town made famous by Twilight. In Forks itself, an eerie silence has reigned. [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Body of missing man found in Sol Duc River.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/06/body-of-missing-man-found-in-sol-duc-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article published Jun 6, 2011 By Rob Ollikainen Peninsula Daily News FORKS — The body of Benjamin Roldan Salinas, the West End man who had been missing since May 14 after running from a highway traffic stop, was found in the Sol Duc River three miles east of Sappho, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office confirmed [...]]]></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>Call in NY to Quit U.S. Immigration Program</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/05/call-in-ny-to-quit-u-s-immigration-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/05/call-in-ny-to-quit-u-s-immigration-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 01:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 9, 2011      NYT  KIRK SEMPLE A group of 38 state lawmakers sent a letter to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday urging him to remove New York from a national program that has been a cornerstone of the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement efforts. The letter comes about two months after another group of elected officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest of L.A. police checkpoint &#8211; stealing cars from immigrants</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/03/protest-of-l-a-police-checkpoint-stealing-cars-from-immigrants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/03/protest-of-l-a-police-checkpoint-stealing-cars-from-immigrants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This great video is of the Southern California Immigration Coalition&#8217;s disruption of a police checkpoint last Saturday night.  L.A. Radical Women members participated. Enjoy,  Lois http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lf4kENkxo]]></description>
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		<title>30 days to comment &#8211; Environ. Impact Statement on Port Angeles BP Station</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/30-days-to-comment-eviron-impact-statement-on-port-angeles-bp-station/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/30-days-to-comment-eviron-impact-statement-on-port-angeles-bp-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This is a link to the full 127 page impact statement.  Fascinating reading &#8211; especially the last part which shows the actual  signin sheet from that late-notice public meeting and has all the comments submitted by all of us last time around.  They basically say there is minimal impact of a new station.  Also mention future [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=343</guid>
		<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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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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