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Byline: Joe Rodriguez
Crossing the country from several cities, 18 busloads of "Freedom Riders" like Federico Gonzalez and Maggie Santos may do what politicians and lawyers cannot _ remove the pall of terrorism cast upon immigrants after Sept. 11, 2001, and put their rights back on the agenda.
Dubbed the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, 800 immigrants and supporters from around the country will stop at key cities before arriving in New York City on Saturday
"I can't wait to get to Washington," Gonzalez told the New York Times, as he sat on a bus speeding through the New Mexico desert. An ice cream truck driver, Gonzalez boarded the bus in ...