As the economy turned sour and New Mexico state lawmakers cut funding for museums, the National Hispanic Cultural Center has had to transition and institute painful cost-saving measures.

The Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, honors departed souls of loved ones who are welcomed back for a few intimate hours. In the last decade or so, this traditional Latin American holiday with indigenous roots has spread throughout the U.S. along with migration from Mexico and other countries where it is observed.

The Obama administration's new policy allowing illegal immigrants without criminal records to remain in the country has stirred up debate, and Antonio Diaz Chacon, the country's latest undocumented immigrant hero, is in the middle of it.