"Arrests and deportations of immigrants living illegally in the United States plummeted in 2021 compared with 2020, while more of those arrested were convicted of serious crimes in keeping with a shifting strategy under U.S. President Joe Biden." - Reuters, March 11, 2022 U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (D., IL), Julissa Reynoso, the United States Ambassador to Spain, and Chicago Alderman Gilbert Villegas, 36th Ward, were among the 40 influential individuals of 2021 named to The Recast Power List. - Politico, March 11, 2022 Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, an actor and singer, was named among Time's Women of the Year for making "history as the first trans actor to win a Golden Globe." - Time, March 14/ 21, 2022 "The soundtrack to the movie musical Encanto is the No. 1 album in the United States for a ninth week." - United Press International, March 19, 2022 Carlos Barbosa-Lima, 77, a virtuoso on classical guitar while still a teenager in Brazil recorded some 50 albums and performed all over the world. He died in São Paulo. - The New York Times, March 11, 2022 … Lauro Cavazos, 95, who served as Secretary of Education under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, died in Concord, Mass. - The New York Times, March 18, 2022 … Emilio Delgado, 81, the actor who for more than four decades played Luis the handyman on the beloved children's television show 'Sesame Street,' died" in Manhattan. - The New York Times, March 12, 2022 Authorities in north-central Mexico "have arrested 10 suspects in a huge weekend brawl among soccer fans that left over two dozen people injured, three critically. Guadalupe Murguía, the interior secretary of Queretaro state, said a total of 26 people had been identified as participating in the brawl and that raids and searches with warrants were continuing in several cities." - The Associated Press, March 8, 2022 Guatemala's Congress approved "a law that punishes abortion with up to 25 years in prison and prohibits same-sex marriage and teaching about sexual diversity in schools." - Reuters, March 8, 2022