The first Border Patrol Stop of an Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride bus just took place in Texas, and fortunately was resolved without further incident: 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."...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. This underlies the bravery of these riders, and the urgency of their cause.