"Biden administration officials formally sought to waive environmental regulations to allow construction of up to 20 additional miles of border wall in a part of Texas that is inundated by illegal migration. The move was a stunning reversal on a political and moral issue that had once galvanized Mr. Biden and Democrats like no other." - The New York Times, October 7, 2023 "The Biden administration said it would restart deportation flights to Venezuela only two weeks after extending humanitarian protection to 500,000 Venezuelan migrants already in the United States." - The New York Times, October 8, 2023 Federal government "will be prevented from establishing future policies calling for the separation of asylum-seeking migrant families under a long-sought legal settlement" between the American Civil Liberties Union and the Biden administration. - United Press International, October 16, 2023 "As Latinos represent nearly three-quarters of the growth of the US labor force since 2010 - and their spending power rockets in the trillions - employers are beginning to see Spanish fluency, especially native fluency, as an increasingly desirable, even essential, quality." - BBC News, October 1, 2023 "The National Museum of the American Latino doesn't even have a building yet, but its work is already controversial." After pushback from conservative Hispanics about an exhibit on the history of Latino youth movements, it was put on hold and one on Latino music is being developed." - Time, October 9, 2023 Sen. Robert "Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat charged last month with taking bribes in exchange for lucrative political favors, faced a stunning new accusation (October 12) - that he conspired to act as an agent of Egypt even as he served as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." - The New York Times, October 13, 2023 "Daniel Noboa, an inexperience politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, won Ecuador's presidential runoff election (October 15) held amid unprecedented violence." - The Associated Press, October 15, 2023 "FIFA allocated the 2030 World Cup to Morocco, Spain and Portugal," Reuters reported October 4, "but also said Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay will host three matches to mark the tournament's centenary."