"Relative quiet has prevailed along the southern U.S. border since (May 12), despite widespread fears that ending a pandemic-era policy to immediately expel most migrants, even asylum seekers, would set off a stampede from Mexico." - The New York Times, May 15, 2023 "Mexico has let tens of thousands of people cross its territory on their way to the American border since early April, government date shows, a major uptick before the expiration of a U.S. immigration measure that has kept most migrants from being able to claim asylum in the United States." - The New York Times, May 11, 2023 "A crush of asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border is complicating an already intractable immigration debate on Capitol Hill, pulling the two parties further apart and threatening to undermine what some lawmakers have viewed as the best hope in a decade for Congress to forge a comprehensive immigration deal." - The New York Times, May 14, 2023 President Biden said he "would nominate Adriana Kugler for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board," The New York Times reported May 13. "If confirmed by the Senate, the Fed would get its first Latina board member." … Julie Chavez Rodriguez, granddaughter of labor leader Cesar Chavez, will serve as the president's 2024 campaign manager. - Hispanic Marketing 101, May 1, 2023 Federal prosecutors charged Rep. George Santos, (R-NY) "with 13 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, stealing public funds and lying on federal disclosure forms, and took him into custody." - The New York Times, May 11, 2023 Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso in Mexico City is hosting an exhibit through June 12 honoring the art of Fermin Revueltas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, who led an artistic mural movement a century ago. - The Associated Press, May 6, 2023 Paraguay elected Santiago Peña, a 44-year-old conservative economist, as its new president, "keeping the South American nation in the control of the right-wing Colorado Party, which has run the country for all but five of the past 76 years." - The New York Times, May 1, 2023