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" ... Yet things started out most unpropitiously for young De Lara. His family lived in Mexico's cartel country, Sinaloa, where his father practiced architecture, his mother interior décor. One day, their building was shot up in a drug-related crossfire. His father uprooted the family and moved north near the US border. De Lara was a year old. There he stayed attending a Catholic School until one day, at age 12, his father uprooted the family again just ahead of trouble and they fled to the US, ostensibly as tourists visiting relatives in Leander, Texas. Raul didn't speak English. They stayed, illegally. He attended the local high-school. He did undergrad in Austin, and graduate school in Richmond, Va. At high-school he managed to get sponsorship for doing extreme BMX bicycle sports, during college waitered in Mexican restaurants. Along with his family he spent many years in a legal no-man's-land awaiting normalization. When he applied for DACA status, he did so fearfully because all the details he had to supply such as home address, family name and the like could equally have led to everyone's detainment and expulsion. Yet he prevailed and achieved consistently, never relinquishing his deepest calling. If anybody has earned the right to pursue his American dream it's De Lara. ... "