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The way they are reporting it!

Immigrant Activists Stopped by Border Patrol
LAST UPDATE: 9/26/2003 3:26:31 PM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth

(SIERRA BLANCA, TEXAS) -- A convoy of two busloads of people on their way to Washington D.C. to lobby for citizenship for illegal aliens working in the U.S. was stopped today by the U.S. Border patrol just outside El Paso in west Texas.

"They were asked for their identification after being stopped at the I.N.S. checkpoint on Interstate 10 near Sierra Blanca," Leone Bicchieri, the leader of the convoy, which left Los Angeles earlier this week and is scheduled to arrive in San Antonio tonight, told 1200 WOAI news.

It is one of ten bus convoys which are calling themselves Immigrant Workers Freedom Rides, after the Freedom Rides of bus passengers which helped integrate bus stations and other public facilities in the south during the civil rights movement.

Bicchieri says the busses were released following the intervention of El Paso Bishop Armando X. Ochoa and two members of Congress, who called on the Border Patrol, which is now a part of the Department of Homeland Security, to allow the passengers to proceed.

The passengers were ordered to get off the busses and enter the Border Patrol offices, where they refused to provide the documentation officials were demanding.

"They were asked for their identification but the passengers felt it was racial profiling and exercised their right to remain silent," Bicchieri said. "Almost everyone on both busses are people of color."

The Border Patrol said it didn't know if any passengers were detained. Bicchieri said he 'didn't know' if any of the passengers are illegal aliens.

The Freedom Rides will lobby Congress on three points, according to spokesman Jaime Martinez in San Antonio.

"Citizenship for all immigrants who are in this country, the right to reunite families, and the right to protect workers on the job."

Martinez says there are an estimated three million illegal aliens, or 'immigrant workers' as the activists call them, currently working in the United States. Several measures have been introduced in Congress to grant some form of legal status to those who have been here for a certain period of time, have held a job, and meet certain other requirements.

"This shows exactly why these laws are needed," Bicchieri said. "People who are working, paying taxes, contributing into this economy, contributing to this society, should not worry that when they drive to another part of the country they live in, that they will be stopped, and harassed, and asked for papers."

Bicchieri said 'if a group of Boy Scouts' had been traveling down the same route, "they wouldn't have been stopped and asked for documentation."

The two bus loads of activists still plan to spend the night in San Antonio, although their arrival will be delayed several hours by the incident. They then plan to travel to Washington D.C, first making stops in
Austin and Dallas to meet with supporters.

We need to find out 'which' two members of Congress and applaud them!!!

I think you misread that paragraph, the two congressman are the bad guys!

"They were asked for their identification but the passengers felt it was racial profiling and exercised their right to remain silent," Bicchieri said. "Almost everyone on both busses are people of color."

The lying weasels. They felt they were in danger of getting caught! But see how quickly people catch on to the scam of the moment. They know that "people of color" are released from the obligation to obey the laws of the land. That onus is reserved for the "colorless people"!

At least the reporter got it right and called them illegal aliens, not "undocumented immigrants", or some other such tripe.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

Bicchieri says the busses were released following the intervention of El Paso Bishop Armando X. Ochoa and two members of Congress, who called on the Border Patrol, which is now a part of the Department of Homeland Security, to allow the passengers to proceed

NAMES!

They are freakin' illegal!!! Build a wall around the southern border. Work camps for people who come back a second time - perfect new WPA and CCC, and bill the Mexican government for their upkeep.