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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; surveillance</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>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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=354</guid>
		<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>Feds say fingerprint and check immigration database or else!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/feds-say-fingerprint-and-check-immigration-database-or-else/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/feds-say-fingerprint-and-check-immigration-database-or-else/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Localities Warned on Fingerprinting By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Local governments cannot opt out of a federal program that checks the fingerprints of people who are arrested against a database to determine if they are illegal immigrants, the head of the immigration enforcement agency said Friday. That is because the agreement [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=290</guid>
		<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>Obama signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/obama-signs-border-bill-to-increase-surveillance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/obama-signs-border-bill-to-increase-surveillance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times  August 14, 2010 President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border. The measure sailed through Congress in little more than a week with broad bipartisan support, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP Impact: US-Mexico border isn&#8217;t so dangerous</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/06/ap-impact-us-mexico-border-isnt-so-dangerous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/06/ap-impact-us-mexico-border-isnt-so-dangerous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Associated Press Writer Martha Mendoza,– Thu Jun 3, 11:38 am ET It&#8217;s one of the safest parts of America, and it&#8217;s getting safer. It&#8217;s the U.S.-Mexico border, and even as politicians say more federal troops are needed to fight rising violence, government data obtained by The Associated Press show it actually isn&#8217;t so dangerous after all. The top four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; lets ICE use local police in secret!</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/secure-communities-lets-ice-use-local-police-in-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/02/secure-communities-lets-ice-use-local-police-in-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Targets &#8220;Criminal Aliens&#8221; Thursday 18 February 2010 by: William Fisher, t r u t h o u t &#124; Report (Photo: r3v &#124;&#124; cls) A little-known program run by the Department of Homeland Security is using inaccurate databases and functioning &#8220;as little more than a dragnet to funnel even more people into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Anti-Terror&#8221; Patrol Planes in Bellingham</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/10/anti-terror-patrol-planes-in-bellingham/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/10/anti-terror-patrol-planes-in-bellingham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boys are bragging about their new technology! Check it out: Bellingham (WA) among sites that will get anti-terror patrol planes From the article from the AP, some of the rationale used to justify this military buildup: &#8220;Someone who could fly a plane full of narcotics in could also fly a plane full of terrorists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Buildup for Vancouver Olympics?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/08/military-buildup-for-vancouver-olympics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2009/08/military-buildup-for-vancouver-olympics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=60</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out Alex&#8217;s new page with links about lots of military activity here in Western Washington state including aerial surveillance, army helicopters and fighter jets over Port Angeles, and more information on the Olympic Security Coordination Center which &#8220;will coordinate the security efforts for over 40 federal, state and local agencies on the U.S. side [...]]]></description>
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