by MARGARET KIMBERLY
The biggest risk created by bus travel used to be nothing worse than having a talkative, strange person in the next seat. Today a bus passenger in western New York might be awakened in the wee hours by a Border Patrol agent, flashlight in hand, who asks, “Where were you born?” If the passenger in question is white, that will probably be the end of the conversation, if not a search, an arrest or a deportation may take place.
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