Repatriation Effort Earns Border Patrol Few Fans
9/29/2003. Los Angeles Times
In what U.S. officials call a rescue mission and critics dismiss as costly folly, thousands of illegal immigrants caught in Arizona this month are being flown in handcuffs to four Texas cities for deportation to Mexico � in the hope that they will not try again to sneak across the border in Arizona's killer desert heat....

Incansable marcha por la legalizaci�n
9/29/2003. La Opini�n
Son seis d�as de viaje, cinco estados recorridos y 2,391 millas transitadas. Pero para los participantes en la denominada Caravana por la Libertad, la lucha por la legalizaci�n de millones de inmigrantes amerita �se y muchos otros esfuerzos. ...

Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride to stop in W.Columbia on Monday
9/29/2003. WISTV
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride has made stops in 23 cities across the country. On Monday it will stop in West Columbia. In St. Louis hundreds of activists turned out for the demonstration. People of all races and religions came to show their support for the cause. ...

Immigrants heading to Washington rally in St. Louis
9/29/2003. St. Louis Today
Two buses carrying 104 immigrants and their supporters stopped in St. Louis on Sunday night as part of a coast-to-coast sojourn designed to persuade Congress to overhaul immigration laws. ...

Immigrants ride for changes
9/29/2003. KnoxNews.com
At the age of 18, when most high schoolers begin preparing for college, Ossee Desmangles was running for his life. Desmangles fled the island nation of Haiti in 1992 after civil war broke out. He entered Cuba as a refugee and then came to Miami. Although able to work in the United States legally, he has been waiting 11 years for immigration authorities to process his case for a green card. He cannot legally return home to see his parents and siblings or have them come and join him. ...

Immigrant workers take Freedom Ride for rights
9/29/2003. Hampton Roads
They want decent pay, respect from employers, a shot at a good education. The American Dream, really. So earlier this month, hundreds of immigrants and their supporters boarded about 20 buses from nine cities to kick off a new national Freedom Ride. ...

National bus tour for immigrants' rights hits Q-C
9/29/2003. The Dispatch
DAVENPORT -- Five hundred people -- some on their way to Washington, D.C. -- rallied Sunday at St. Ambrose University in favor of immigration reform. ...

Hundreds hail Freedom Ride
9/29/2003. Des Moines Register
Crispin Vega was one of the first to arrive Sunday on the steps of the state Capitol to await the arrival of two buses. "I want to show my support for all the immigrant workers fighting for equal rights and legal status," said Vega, a Mexico native who came to Iowa eight years ago for a better life....

Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride stops in Kansas City
9/29/2003. Kansas City Star
Two busloads of immigrant workers and their supporters who are crossing the country to promote immigration reform got a rousing welcome Sunday in Kansas City. As the 106 weary travelers from the San Francisco area filed into the Primitivo Garcia Elementary School gymnasium for a rally, an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred people erupted in cheers, chants and applause....

Haitians revisit role in U.S. history
9/29/2003. The Miami Herald
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Participants in the Immigrant Workers' Freedom Ride stopped in this Southern city Sunday, the future home of a statue to honor Haitian soldiers who died in the Battle of the Siege of Savannah....