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 |
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
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
Secure Communities Agreements cancelled, participation still required
Updated: 8/5/11 04:25 PM ET Huffington Post
WASHINGTON –
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. Read more
Nowhere-Near-the-Border Patrol in Forks
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 around the world for its ability to stay fresh for weeks. It
grows like a weed on the mountainsides around Forks, a tiny town on the Olympic
Peninsula Read more
Body of missing man found in Sol Duc River.
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 Sunday night. Read more
Far From Home
Why is Border Patrol patrolling so far from the border?
Protest of L.A. police checkpoint – stealing cars from immigrants
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This great video is of the Southern California Immigration Coalition’s disruption of a police checkpoint last Saturday night. L.A. Radical Women members participated.
Enjoy, Lois
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